Rayner: government ‘cannot just go through the motions in the face of decline’

Angela Rayner told Labour campaign group Mainstream that ‘the change that people wanted so desperately needs to be seen, it needs to be felt’. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

Angela Rayner has said the very survival of the Labour party is at stake and warned Keir Starmer that he “cannot go through the motions” in the face of declining support.

In a speech at campaign group Mainstream’s spring reception, the former deputy prime minister said she believed the government was “running out of time” to show it can deliver the change that the public needs.