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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
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Kieran Isgin

Dominic Raab winks before mocking Angela Rayner's opera trip

Dominic Raab has been criticised for making a 'bizarre' gesture before launching a verbal attack on Angela Rayner due to her visiting the opera.

The deputy Prime Minister has also been accused of 'sexism' and snobbery after winking while accusing the Labour Deputy Leader of "champagne socialism" because she visited the East Sussex Glyndebourne opera house during the rail strikes. It comes after a heated Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons where two leading figures clashed over rail strikes, the economy, and the Tory party losing two by-elections in just one week.

Ms Rayner had been grilling the Justice Secretary over previous comments he made to people who use foodbanks, stating they "simply have a cash flow problem". She added: "He doesn’t. He spent over a million pounds in nine months on private jets, it shows how out of touch this Government is.

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