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Coffee House Shots

Has Angela Rayner redeemed herself?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

With Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer away, Oliver Dowden and Angela Rayner stepped in for PMQs today. Questions quickly turned to the long running row about Rayner's tax affairs. Did she redeem herself?   

Also, the prime minister has announced further UK military spending, confirming it will rise to 2.5% of national income by 2030. Does the move cause problems for Keir Starmer? 

Katy Balls speaks to James Heale and Isabel Hardman. 

Produced by Megan McElroy.

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Hello and welcome to Coffey House Shots

0:30.0

for Spectators Daily Politics Podcast I'm Katie Paul's and joined by Isva Hardman and James

0:34.9

Hill. So Angela Rayna faced the music today in the Commons Chamber at PMQs.

0:41.0

Ritchie Sunac is out the country, more on that later. So it is Rayna versus Dowden and we can

0:47.0

hear a clip now of her describing the Prime Minister's height.

0:51.0

I read with interest that the right honourable

0:53.8

gentleman has been urging his neighbour in number 10 to call an election because

0:57.7

he's worried they might get wiped out. Has he finally realized that when he stabbed Boris Johnson in the back to get his main into number 10,

1:06.5

he was ditching their biggest election winner for a pintsized loser? size loser. As oratory goes was this on a particularly high level would you say

1:19.7

Isabel? Well I mean it's nice to have a break from two men arguing that their party is a little less bad than the other and talking about the NHS in labour-run Wales, so I'm not going to complain. I thought that Angela Rayna obviously came into the chamber knowing

1:36.9

that somebody might quite quickly bring up the police investigation into whether she has broken among other things

1:44.0

electoral law over her living arrangements back in 2010 and so she decided to

1:50.3

actually frame the whole session around this which I thought was typically Rayna sort of, you know, quite ballsy and quite artful.

1:58.0

So she started out by saying that I know that the members opposite will want to talk about my living

2:04.0

arrangements and what the country cares about is their own living arrangements and

2:09.2

then immediately moved on to the Renters Reform Bill which MPs are debating the

2:14.2

remaining stages of in the Commons this afternoon and Michael Gove saying

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