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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nadeem Badshah and agencies

Labour: Angela Rayner will ‘push’ for next leader to be a woman

Angela Rayner
‘At the moment I’m happy with Keir because I get to be the woman in charge,’ Rayner said. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex/Shutterstock

Labour’s deputy leader, Angela Rayner, has revealed she is “doing the groundwork now” to ensure that the party’s next leader is a woman.

The shadow secretary of state for the future of work admitted that she would “certainly be pushing” for Sir Keir Starmer’s successor to be female, but she joked that at the moment she was “happy with Keir because I get to be the woman in charge”.

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