Angela Rayner has appeared on ITV's Lorraine wearing a trouser suit following a widely condemned article published in the Mail on Sunday. She says she considered her attire for the show because she did not want to be 'judged for what I wear' but also added: “I wanted to be defiant as well, because I don’t think that women should be told how to dress."
Speaking to Lorraine Kelly on Tuesday, April 26, the Ashton-under-Lyne MP said she was 'crestfallen' after the paper published sexist claims about her. The claims were made by an unnamed Tory MP and the article crudely suggested that she had been trying to distract Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs in the House of Commons.
The Labour deputy leader said she had to prepare her children for the article's publication over the weekend once she knew it was going to be published. She told ITV’s Lorraine: “I’ve been overwhelmed because, when I heard the story was coming out and we rebutted it instantly, and was like ‘This is disgusting, it’s completely untrue. Please don’t run a story like that.’
