Angela Rayner has delivered a striker's charter
Evening Standard|September 13, 2023
THERE was a bit of Angela Rayner's barnstorming appearance at the TUC yesterday which should have worried business and that was before she even started. It was when TUC president Maria Exall introduced her as "one of us" - as opposed to Sir Keir Starmer, who really doesn't have the worker vibe.
Melanie McDonagh
Angela Rayner has delivered a striker's charter

Ange herself declared that she may have been born in Stockport but was "raised in the trade union movement". Labour's deputy leader then delivered a succession of pledges, including a "cast-iron" one about an Employment Rights Bill within 100 days of a Labour government. And it's elements of that which suggest that the business-friendly mask has slipped and the prawn cocktail for wooing the City can be re-fridged.

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