Angela Rayner’s tilt at the leadership is a reminder to Sir Keir Starmer that there is a lot for him to do on the domestic front.
In her most critical intervention since leaving the cabinet last year, the former deputy prime minister said that “people feel the system isn’t working for them” and that, “if we don’t have an answer to that, the right-wing populists will offer theirs”. On both accounts, she is right. It’s also true that “the very survival of the Labour Party is at stake”, and that “we’re running out of time”.
