Keir Starmer blasted over plan to deliver again Angela Rayner | Politics | News | EUROtoday

Sir Keir Starmer got here underneath hearth after declaring that Angela Rayner will return to his Cabinet. The Prime Minister stated he missed his former deputy, who stop in a row over her tax affairs.

Sir Keir advised The Observer: “Yes, of course I do. I was really sad that we lost her. As I said to her at the time, she’s going to be a major voice in the Labour movement.”

Pressed whether or not she will probably be again within the Cabinet, he stated: “Yes. She’s hugely talented.”

Sir Keir added that the Ashton-under-Lyne MP was “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen”.

But the Conservatives accused the Prime Minister of eager to deliver again Ms Rayner in a bid to avoid wasting himself amid plummeting ballot rankings.

There have been experiences that Health Secretary Wes Strewing is urgent Ms Rayner to enroll in a “joint ticket” for the Labour management.

Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake stated: “Only Keir Starmer could try and fix a government already drowning in scandal by bringing back another rule-breaker.

“Angela Rayner breached the ministerial code, avoided paying property taxes, resigned in disgrace – and still hasn’t settled the council tax she owes, yet Starmer is rolling out the red carpet for her return.

“It’s obvious why. He hasn’t got the backbone to stand up to the Streeting-Rayner pact now circling his leadership.

“Even his own MPs are openly preparing to move against the most unpopular Prime Minister in history.”

Ms Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister, housing secretary and deputy Labour chief in September after an unbiased ethics probe discovered she had breached the ministerial code over her underpayment of stamp obligation on a seaside flat.

Sir Keir additionally insisted that he had no intention of stepping apart earlier than the following basic election as questions proceed over his future.

He stated: “When I took over the Labour get together, everybody stated to me, ‘you are not going to have the ability to change the get together’. We ignored that and carried on.

“Then they said to me, ‘you’re not going to be able to win an election’. We got a landslide Labour victory.

“Now, 17 months right into a five-year Labour time period, they are saying ‘you are not in a position to change the nation’.

“Every time we’ve been in this position, we’ve defied them. And that’s what I intend to do.”