Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images “Ms Rayner”, a recent Times leader column noted in high serious tones presumably baffling to any overseas readers, “is Marmite.” To those who dislike her, our Ange is an “ambitious”, “foulmouthed”, “ill-educated” “self-publicist”, all but singlehandedly responsible for the government’s failure on both housebuilding and youth unemployment. Others, by contrast, quite like her. I’ll leave you in suspense as to which side the paper of record is on. This was actually positive enough to pass for a nuanced position on Rayner from the ever-righteous truth-seekers of the British press. Strange to relate, there seems to be something about a working-class woman having fun and wielding power that the papers find simultaneously titillating and unseemly. See the Telegraph ’s breathless report from yesterday (5 May) about her quitting vaping. “Euch,” runs the overwhelming consensus. “Marmite tastes horrible .” Consider this not even slightly pathetic “ exclusive ” from the Mail .…