Nadhim Zahawi quietly omits his links to Jeffrey Archer
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ByAngela Rayner
Angela Rayner has been the Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Until September 2025, she was the deputy prime minister, secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, and deputy leader of the Labour Party. Rayner, born in 1980, formerly worked as a care worker, has been a trade union representative with Unison and was appointed as party chair and national campaign coordinator for the 2021 local elections.
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Conservative class warfare is out of date.
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Neither stand-in is beloved by their party leadership, and today’s unedifying salvos showed why.
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Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Keir Starmer begins a reshuffle – and picks a fight
The Labour leader’s restructuring is an effort to finish what he started in May, when he unsuccessfully tried to sack…
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Angela Rayner seeks to fix a familiar problem with her big speech on corruption
Labour’s deputy leader tried to move the party from arguing for a policy position to a policy principle.
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