Angela Rayner: ‘I don’t believe I broke any rules… in fact I think I was overly transparent’
The Labour conference has got off to an awkward start, as senior figures continue to battle controversy around donations, Starmer’s approval rating plummets, and anger persists over the winter fuel allowance. Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg in Liverpool, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner defended her holiday stay in a New York apartment gifted to her by Lord Alli. Rayner argued that ‘MPs have accepted gifts for years… all MPs do it’, and said that the important point was that the government was being ‘open and transparent’ about it. Kuenssberg pointed out that it wasn’t declared that former Labour MP Sam Tarry also stayed in the apartment, and asked Rayner if she wanted to say sorry for any misjudgements. Rayner said she believed she hadn’t broken any rules, and that she had paid for her holiday herself.
Rayner vague on ‘biggest wave’ of social housing
The deputy PM and housing secretary was also asked what proportion of Labour’s promised 1.5
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