The Latest Breaking News from Angela Rayner

Axing public notices will threaten local democracy, Cleverly tells Rayner

Sir James Cleverly has demanded the Government share its assessments of how the move would hit local newspapers.

Evening Standard · Aug 12, 2025

Voices: Recruitment is in a doom loop – there’s only one thing for it, chancellor…

COMMENT : As a KPMG study lays bare years of falling job openings, and with the unemployment figure refusing to shrink, Britain’s bosses are stuck in hiring limbo that only Rachel Reeves can get them out of, says James Moore

The Independent UK · Aug 11, 2025

Starmer’s team seen as ‘tired, same-again politicians’, says Labour peer

Charlie Falconer calls on party colleagues to rediscover energy and not risk losing credit for big achievements

The Guardian - UK · Aug 9, 2025

Why are proposals for China’s super-embassy in London so contentious?

Angela Rayner has asked China to un-redact parts of the plans that had been ‘greyed out’ in the application

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2025

OPINION - Rayner’s wrong-headed rights Bill will wipe out jobs … and her own ambitions

Unlike many of my contemporaries on the opposite side of the political divide, I don’t underestimate Angela Rayner. Which other figure active in politics today could leave school at 16 — without any qualifications — and then rise to become one of the most powerful Cabinet ministers in the land?

Evening Standard · Aug 7, 2025

Shared prayers and tears: how Lammy wooed JD Vance and the White House

Analysts say foreign secretary’s empathy and pragmatism make relationship-forming easy despite political divides

The Guardian - UK · Aug 7, 2025

National Living Wage predicted to rise higher than expected

The highest estimate could see wages rise over £1,200 a year

The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2025

Angela Rayner calls on China to explain redacted images in super-embassy plans

Ms Rayner has given Beijing two weeks to explain why parts of its plans for the sprawling new embassy site are blacked out.

Evening Standard · Aug 6, 2025

Angela Rayner demands China explain redacted blueprint for London 'mega-embassy' amid security fears

The Deputy Prime Minister has told Beijing to explain why it has redacted drawings of areas in the proposed building near the capital’s financial district

Evening Standard · Aug 6, 2025

Ministers ask China to explain redacted designs for London ‘super-embassy’

Angela Rayner gave the embassy two weeks to send additional details about its plans before approval decision

The Guardian - UK · Aug 6, 2025