Is Angela Rayner Labour's answer to Farage?
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The Times
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🗓️ 28 May 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
With Labour MPs increasingly in revolt across a range of policies, the prime minister last week made a surprise u-turn on the winter fuel allowance. A day later, a private memo written by Angela Rayner to Rachel Reeves, which argued for a slew of tax rises, rather than spending cuts, found its way to the press. The deputy prime minister denied leaking, but her alternative programme for a Labour Government is gaining traction - not only as a way to move on from Starmerism, but as the potential antidote to Farage.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm always up before the birds and the kids. |
| 0:02.9 | Good thing Costa Express is always up too. |
| 0:07.0 | Early starts are easier with great coffee. |
| 0:09.7 | And if I grab one for Bob, I might even get some decent company. |
| 0:14.5 | Large cappuccino for the bloc who's half asleep. |
| 0:17.2 | Oh, you legend. |
| 0:19.6 | Now that's a proper coffee. |
| 0:21.3 | Should kick in Justin Samfut to remember which end of the screwdriver to use. |
| 0:25.1 | Hmm. |
| 0:26.3 | Costa Express. |
| 0:27.8 | Quality coffee every time. |
| 0:33.2 | At EDF, we don't just encourage you to use less electricity. |
| 0:37.5 | We actually reward you for it. |
| 0:39.7 | That's why, when you use less during peak times on weekdays, we give you free electricity on Sundays. |
| 0:45.3 | How you use it is up to you. |
| 0:47.7 | EDF, change is in our power. |
| 0:51.9 | Households to shift weekday peak usage by 40% could earn up to 16 hours of free |
| 0:55.4 | lectures tea per week, subject to fair usage cap. |
| 0:57.1 | For all teas and seeds, visit edfenergy.com forward slash r-hifem power. |
| 1:04.2 | From the times and the Sunday times, this is the story. |
| 1:08.8 | I'm Manvina. |
| 1:13.0 | The Kyr-Starmer, governing, is one big balancing act. |
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