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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Pippa Crerar

Angela Rayner blasts Tories for 'vile lies' of Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris Johnson

Angela Rayner has hit back at "vile lies" from Conservative MPs who claimed that she crosses her legs in the Commons to distract Boris Johnson.

Labour's deputy leader called out an extraordinary account of Tories likening her tactics to those of a fully-clothed equivalent of Sharon Stone’s infamous scene in the film Basic Instinct.

The report claimed that Ms Rayner was deliberately attempting to put the PM "off his stride" when she stands in for Labour leader Keir Starmer at PMQs.

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