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Aletha Adu

Speaker blasts 'offensive' sexist Angela Rayner article and summons editor to meeting

Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle has summoned the editor of the Mail on Sunday for a meeting over the "offensive" article the paper published about Angela Rayner over the weekend.

The story published in the right-wing paper triggered a wave of condemnation over sexism and snobbery from across the political divide, including from Boris Johnson.

It claimed Labour's Deputy Leader was deliberately crossing her legs in the Commons in a bid to put the Prime Minister "off his stride" when she stands in for Labour leader Keir Starmer at PMQs.

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