MPs from both sides of the aisle have been speaking out in defence of deputy Labour leader and shadow minister Angela Rayner.
A story in the Mail on Sunday claimed that Rayner aimed to put Prime Minister Boris Johnson “off his stride” by crossing and uncrossing her legs while sitting opposite him, according to a cowardly unnamed Conservative MP.
It said: "Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is in the dispatch box by deploying a fully-clothed Parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.
