Angela Rayner: How Much Could Her Resignation Damage Keir Starmer?

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🗓️ 6 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Today, we look at the damage done to Keir Starmer and his government after he lost his deputy prime minister.

Angela Rayner resigned after the prime minister's ethics adviser found that she had breached the ministerial code over failing to pay enough tax on her flat in East Sussex.

But does that mean Keir Starmer’s lost one of his most valuable cabinet members?

Paddy and Laura reunite after the summer to discuss.

And they look at the latest ins and outs as part of the reshuffle that has followed.

They also bring you Mayor of Greater Lincolnshire Andrea Jenkyns singing at the Reform conference.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts.
0:05.0	So near, and yet so far, Paddy, we are almost reunited, but not quite.
0:09.2	Yes. Tomorrow in person, but I'm in Brighton. There's the pier. Well, there's another pier, but it burned down.
0:14.7	And I'm close to Hove where I've been this morning.
0:17.8	On the Hunt of Angela Rainer or on the Hunt of Angela Rainer's flat?
0:21.5	I walked in the street where her flat was.
0:24.4	I spoke to people who are neighbours and locals.
0:28.6	And, you know, friends of hers down here, supporters are rallying around but they're shocked,
0:33.6	stunned, sad and upset.
0:35.8	Well, we hear more of that on today's episode of Newscast,
0:39.1	and I'm also just off a very hot and sweaty train back from Birmingham,
0:43.1	where Reform UK's enormous membership have been gathering
0:46.8	and listening to their leader, Nigel Farage.
0:49.8	Newscast.
0:50.4	Newscast from the BBC.
0:52.1	He has just compared me to the fat controller. Did I say that? I can't believe I said that. Next Wednesday? This is R for the benefit of Earth. I'm not personally a huge Sabrina Carpenter fan. I don't think I'm being rude. I like landscapes. Take me down to Downey Street. Let's go have a tour. Blimey.
1:18.7	Hello, it's Paddy in Brighton. And it's Laura in the studio. Hello. And how lovely to be back weekend newscasters after the summer break.
1:29.4	Yes, I'm in the Harbour Hotel, which is not far from the Grand Hotel, which is where the IRA launched an attack on British government when I was growing up.
1:31.1	And I've just walked past it again.
1:32.0	You can never forget it.
1:35.2	Brighton was the home of so many party conferences.
1:38.6	I mean, did you come here to Brighton for party conferences?
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