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Angela Rayner: Labour isn’t working, bring back Burnham

New Statesman·Ethan Croft·22 days ago
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Photo by Ryan Jenkinson/Getty Images Angela Rayner has declared the Labour government “isn’t working” and says Keir Starmer “must now meet the moment” in the latest sign that she is prepared to stand to replace him as leader of the Labour Party and prime minister. In her first post-election intervention, Rayner condemned “factionalism” in the Labour Party, said that it was wrong to block Andy Burnham from standing for parliament, called for immediate change and set out her own list of headline proposals. Rayner’s manifesto for change from the left includes cost-of-living support “within the current fiscal rules”, “a rising minimum wage”, a “building boom” with planning reform and further progress on the “devolution revolution”, including greater power for mayors. In a statement released on Sunday afternoon, the former deputy prime minister said Labour had suffered a “historic defeat” on Thursday and that “what we are doing isn’t working, and it needs to change.…

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