Angela Rayner is facing backlash after pointing the finger at the previous Tory government for the escalating bin strike chaos in Birmingham. The Deputy Prime Minister claimed it was Conservative mismanagement that pushed the Labour-led Birmingham City Council to bankruptcy in 2023, which she argues is at the root of the current crisis.
But not everyone’s buying it. Tory MP Andrew Mitchell, who represents Sutton Coldfield in the city, didn’t hold back in his response. “If Angela thinks that Labour Birmingham’s bin strike is the fault of the Tories, she must be smoking something,” he said bluntly.
