Wales’ Future Generations Commissioner has said she is “totally exasperated” with recent suggestions made about Angela Rayner crossing her legs after similar claims were made about her in 2015. Sophie Howe shared the time she was subjected to a “Sharon Stone moment” comment and explained that she was accused of crossing her legs in a provocative way during a televised BBC interview.
Speaking to Radio Wales Breakfast on Monday morning, Ms Howe said that similar claims made over the weekend about Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour party, have “brought back all the same feelings of anger and just utter frustration that I felt when the same thing happened to me.” She added: “There’s also an increased frustration that, as it happened to me back in 2015, we’re now seven years on and it is still happening.”
The Mail on Sunday reported that some unnamed Conservative MPs have claimed Ms Rayner purposely tries to 'distract' Boris Johnson by crossing and uncrossing her legs while sat opposite him in the House of Commons. Ms Rayner described this as a “perverted smear” and Boris Johnson condemned the claims in a tweet yesterday by saying: “As much as I disagree with Angela Rayner on almost every political issue, I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today.”
