Tag: Angela Rayner

The comments made by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, on 13 May 2021.

As a starting principle, work must provide a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work and employers must uphold both their legal and moral duties to treat their staff with dignity and respect.

Under the Conservatives good, well-paid jobs that you can raise a family on and that provide security have too often been replaced by insecure and zero-hours jobs that offer only poverty wages, exploitation and mistreatment of workers.

The Government’s neglect of employment rights has meant that surveillance and intrusive technologies usually associated with the gig economy are becoming commonplace. There is an urgent need for an Employment Bill that strengthens rights to ensure workers are protected to keep pace with changes in practice, including the use of algorithms to manage people.

Coming out of this pandemic, the future of work must mean shifting the balance back towards working people and a new deal for workers.

The comments made by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, on 11 May 2021.

Another day, another report of deeply concerning irregularities about the renovation of Boris Johnson’s flat.

This is not about Boris Johnson’s personal finances, the record speaks for itself that he has already broken the rules on declaring his financial interests, and he is already under investigation regarding potentially illegal wrongdoing.

The issue of debt when it comes to the Prime Minister is whatever debt of gratitude Boris Johnson owes to the Tory donor who paid to renovate his flat, and what this donor or donors were promised or expected in return for their generosity.

The comments made by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, on 10 May 2021.

Another day, another investigation into Boris Johnson for more sleaze and dodgy dealings.

The public have a right to know who paid for Boris Johnson’s luxury Caribbean holiday and the renovation of his flat. Most importantly, we need to know what these donors were promised or expected in return for their generosity.

As we have seen over the last year, Tory donors have received a very high return on their investment in the form of government contracts. Boris Johnson needs to stop using the office of Prime Minister as an opportunity to fund his lavish lifestyle and enrich his mates.

The comments made by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, on 4 May 2021.

We are seeing what looks like another cover up from the Prime Minister, who is trying to hide his attempts to fund his lifestyle through secret payments from wealthy Tory donors.

Boris Johnson forcing his MPs to vote against free school meals and making stealth cuts to schools at the same time as asking Tory donors to pay for his own childcare is yet more evidence that it’s one rule for him and his mates another for everyone else. What did these donors expect in return for their generosity, and what were they promised?

With an investigation already underway into potentially illegal activity, the Prime Minister and Conservative Party should stop taking the British people for fools and immediately publish all correspondence relating to all attempts to get Tory donors to fund the Prime Minister’s lifestyle.

The letter sent by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, to Simon Case, the Cabinet Secretary, on 27 April 2021.

Dear Cabinet Secretary,

I write following the revelation that refurbishments to the Prime Minister’s flat were funded via a loan from the Conservative Party.

The Prime Minister’s then Press Secretary, Allegra Stratton, is reported to have told lobby journalists during an official briefing on 8 March: “Conservative Party funds are not being used to pay for any refurbishment of the Downing Street estate.” When asked about the matter today, the Prime Minister’s official spokesman reportedly declined to correct the record and come clean about the donation.

As a Special Adviser, Allegra Stratton is bound by the Civil Service Code which sets out standards of integrity and honesty required from public officials. Therefore, I would urge you to build into your review an investigation into whether the former Press Secretary knowingly misled journalists and the public, or was misled herself by senior members of the government who seem intent on a cover up.

In order to maintain public trust, it is vital that the government publishes the long delayed List of Ministers’ Interests and the details of who paid for Boris Johnson’s flat.

Due to the public interest in this matter, I will be making this letter public.

Yours sincerely,

Angela Rayner
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party

The comments made by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, on 25 April 2021.

The stench of sleaze coming from the Conservatives is overwhelming.

As a first step to start cleaning it up, they need to immediately publish the delayed Register of Ministers’ Interests and publish who benefited from their VIP fast lane. And we need an investigation to find out who paid for the Prime Minister’s redecoration of Downing Street and when.

The choice at these elections is clear: incompetent Boris Johnson’s Conservatives doing favours for their mates, or Keir Starmer’s Labour putting the priorities of the British people first with a plan to create hundreds of thousands of jobs, give our NHS staff a pay rise and tackle anti-social behaviour.

The comments made by Angela Rayner, the Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, on 20 April 2021.

Boris Johnson is clearly running scared of scrutiny and questions about Tory sleaze and dodgy lobbying.

Instead of wasting millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money on a pointless vanity project the Prime Minister should have used the money to give our NHS heroes a pay rise.