Angela Rayner has accused the Conservatives of starting to “prepare for opposition” and obsess over niche culture war issues in a prime minister’s questions in which she faced up to Oliver Dowden for the first time.
With Rishi Sunak on the way to Japan for the G7 summit, Dowden, who took over from Dominic Raab as deputy PM last month, took his place, with Rayner, as is the usual practice, filling in for Keir Starmer.
