Hmm - so Seaside Ange may be considering a comeback. Could be entertaining, but what a humiliating situation - well done Labour voters.
Angela Rayner 'to make statement to MPs on resignation' after ministers urged her to make a comeback
Angela Rayner is expected to deliver a speech to MPs on her resignation after ministers urged her to make a comeback.
The former deputy PM has stayed largely under the radar since her dramatic exit for failing to pay the correct stamp duty on an £800,000 seaside flat.
She quit on September 5 when a sleaze probe found she had broken the ministerial code - although it also suggested she had acted with 'integrity'.
However, the Daily Mail understands Ms Reeves is now poised to make a personal statement in the House next week, something ministers can request but is not done as a matter of course.
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I have a horrible feeling she was an essential part of some behind-the-scenes master plan coordinated by or through the agency of Labour’s walking cash machine Lord Alli, who may well be behind the efforts to restore her to power.
The pieces potentially fit together in a number of ways: Rayner, as Shadow Ed. Sec., introduced the Party’s motion (and thence policy) to ‘redistribute the investments, assets and property of independent schools’ which would include over 60 square miles of some of the most desirable real estate in London and the Home Counties.
After the election, she was given the Housing portfolio, which - perhaps crucially - also placed her at the centre of the question of the Chinese Embassy plans. Meanwhile, she is known to have benefited greatly from Alli’s largesse, generosity he has also extended to Starmer and numerous others (including Baroness Uddin: he went halves with a known associate of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood to lend her the money to pay back her fiddled expenses).
Such is the state of British politics that I feel certain there is something major lurking; Lord Alli’s financial liberality to those in positions of power (and his help to place them there) is the fin above the surface from which one must inevitably deduce the presence of a shark.
Macheath - I agree, Lord Alli’s financial liberality is the fin above the surface and there may be more we don't know about. It isn't easy to know what to make of it because as the recent football debacle suggests, the overall state of British politics isn't well hidden even if the detail may be a web which isn't easily untangled.
The suspiciously furtive nature of British politics isn't hidden at all, but it isn't easy to tell how much that matters.
Re-visiting this post reminded me of a comment I made elsewhere just after her resignation. I may be barking up the wrong tree but here goes:
…consider Rayner’s errors of judgement, odd decisions and lapses into vulgarity in the light of this:
‘Angela Rayner yesterday boasted of being 'proud' of 12-hour-plus 'rave' sessions and drinking super-strength booze. […] Ms Rayner said that she had just returned from a holiday in Spain where she had been drinking from mid-afternoon to sunrise the next morning […]
Referring to a recent supermarket trip, she said: 'I was ashamed the other day because I got three bottles of wine and eight packs of vapes and that was it, that's all I had in my basket and I did actually think 'I need to put some fruit in there’’.’ (Mail 2023)
Not to mention the history of heavy cider drinking at the age of 14, the recent mega-glass of wine on the beach and the time when, visiting Starmer’s flat, she opened a treasured bottle of whisky when he left the room - the act of someone so desperate for a drink she couldn’t wait for her host to return?
It wouldn’t surface straight away, of course, for fear of undermining the policies she introduced but look out for a future bid for sympathy in the light of a long-standing addiction issue.
Macheath - interesting angle, I didn't realise she might be that far gone. A future bid for sympathy would have to come after some kind of career ending failure or at least a permanent retreat into the political twilight.
If she has a significant drink problem then it may be leaked by an opponent if she makes a bid for a return to the front benches. She'll know that of course. What an unenviable game politics can be.
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