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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jon Stone

Speaker summons Mail on Sunday editor to meeting after sexist article about Angela Rayner

UK Parliament

The Speaker of the House of Commons has summoned the editor of a national newspaper for a meeting after it published a sexist article about a Labour MP wearing tights.

The Mail on Sunday was widely criticised this weekend for running an article about Angela Rayner supposedly trying to "distract" Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs in the chamber.

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