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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rob Merrick

Dominic Raab criticises ‘champagne socialist’ Angela Rayner for going to opera

UK Parliament

Dominic Raab has criticised Angela Rayner for attending the Glyndebourne opera festival – calling it proof that “champagne socialism is back in the Labour party”.

Standing in for Boris Johnson, the deputy prime minister hit out at Labour’s deputy leader after pictures emerged of her in the Sussex countryside, enjoying Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, during the rail strikes last week.

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