Angela Rayner has got it. That magic, hard-to-define quality that marks out a politician as capable of being prime minister. It shone through the dry civil-service language of her memo to Rachel Reeves that was leaked this week.
Obviously, she didn’t write it herself. It was written by a policy wonk with such familiarity with Treasury Budget submissions that they might have been a Treasury official at some point. But she authored the politics behind it.
