Is Angela Rayner making her move?
The Politics Show
The New Statesman
4.2 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Angela Rayner has called Shabana Mahmood’s immigration plans un-British. Is this the beginning of the dilution of these reforms and even of a leadership campaign?
Anoosh Chakelian is joined by Ailbhe Rea to discuss.
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| 0:00.0 | The New Statesman. |
| 0:05.9 | Angela Rainer has called Shabana Mahmood's immigration plans on British. |
| 0:10.7 | Is this the beginning of the dilution of these reforms? |
| 0:13.8 | And even of a leadership campaign. |
| 0:16.5 | This is Daily Politics from The New Statesman. |
| 0:18.7 | I'm Anusha Kellyan and I'm joined by our political editor Alva Ray. |
| 0:42.0 | Hi, Alva. Hello. So you were there, I think, when Angela Raina was making these comments. Oh, no. I had a cold. I had great plans to go. Okay. All right. Well, sorry to defame you like that on the podcast. But she was. Would have been there. And I got a readout from it, a transcript and live updates. |
| 0:43.5 | So it was like I was in the room. |
| 0:48.8 | And I feel like we have all been to many events in Walkers of Whitehall. |
| 0:51.8 | Yeah. There's no need to overdo it. |
| 0:52.3 | No need. |
| 0:54.2 | Yeah, really, really no need. |
| 0:57.6 | I mean, for non-London or non-Westminster listeners, |
| 1:04.5 | who might be inclined to glamourise one of these pubs opposite Dining Street on Whitehall, |
| 1:05.9 | they really shouldn't. |
| 1:13.3 | The basement of Walkers in Whitehall is this funny, no disrespect to the lovely pub, |
| 1:19.1 | but like it's this funny juxtaposition of playing host to some really big moments in Westminster. |
| 1:23.9 | Like it's also where Morgan McSweeney had his leaving drinks last week or the week before, |
| 1:26.5 | the night before our own George Eaton had his. |
| 1:33.2 | And, you know, they have Walkers of Whitehall plays hosts to all of these sort of important moments, but it is a sweaty basement, slightly smelly, not a place that people need to be |
| 1:42.0 | visiting the next time they're in London. |
| 1:43.6 | Yeah, okay. And she was there for the mainstream, which is this, we've talked about it as being |
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