Since being forced to resign as deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner has largely kept any criticisms of the government to herself.
But on Tuesday evening, she let rip. In a jaw-dropping speech to Labour activists of the left-wing Mainstream group, she warned the party had come to be seen to represent “the establishment, not working people” and called for an urgent change of course, adding that it was “running out of time” to deliver for voters.
