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Rachael Burford

Angela Rayner says ‘disgusting’ sexist story left her ‘crestfallen’

Angela Rayner lambasted the comments (James Manning/PA)

(Picture: PA Wire)

Angela Rayner said she was "crestfallen" and worried about what her children would think when a newspaper suggested she uses her legs to distract the Prime Minister in the Commons.

An unnamed Tory MP briefed the story that Labour’s deputy leader attempts to put off Boris Johnson during Prime Minister’s Questions by crossing and uncrossing her legs in a scene reminiscent of Sharon Stone in the film Basic Instinct.

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