If workers’ rights are a bit French, as the Tories suggest, then vive la révolution

Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner has been the champion of Labour’s ‘new deal for working people’. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

To the stirring strains of the Marseillaise, a monochrome Angela Rayner reels off her plans for workers’ rights, as a red beret and a Gallic moustache jiggle around her head. “Angela Rayner’s Britain?” demands the title, alongside a tiny tricolour.

Tory messaging has become ever more bizarre as this gaffe-strewn campaign lurches towards a close, but Thursday’s example, warning that Labour may make the UK’s labour market un peu French, hit new heights of weirdness.