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Tom Ambrose

Mail on Sunday editor rejects meeting with Speaker over Angela Rayner story

Angela Rayner
Angela Rayner has accused Tory MPs of spreading ‘desperate, perverted smears’ about her by claiming she has sought to distract the prime minister provocatively in the Commons. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA

The Mail on Sunday’s editor has rejected a meeting with the House of Commons speaker after a story that accused Angela Rayner of “distracting” Boris Johnson with her legs.

Sir Lindsay Hoyle had called the newspaper’s editor, David Dillon, to a meeting after it ran the story, which has been widely condemned as sexist by MPs of all political parties and prompted discussion about misogyny in Westminster.

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