Angela Rayner

Boris Johnson said he deplored the article about Labour's deputy leader and was understood to have shared his view with Ms Rayner in a "short but heartfelt" ...

"This sort of sexism and misogyny is frankly the sort of rubbish that female MPs but also female staffers in the House of Commons have to put up with every single day. Boris Johnson has said he deplores "the misogyny directed at her anonymously" and is understood to have communicated that view in a "short but heartfelt" WhatsApp message to Ms Rayner. Boris Johnson said he deplored the article about Labour's deputy leader and was understood to have shared his view with Ms Rayner in a "short but heartfelt" WhatsApp message.

The MP who briefed a “misogynistic” claim that Labour's Angela Rayner tries to distract the Prime Minister in the Commons will be disciplined if caught, ...

“She doesn’t need to use her sex to win an argument or put the Prime Minister off, or whatever was suggested in that article. “There is nothing surprising that two colleagues in Government have the same view and use the same words.” “They have reached the same view and they have used the same words.

A minister today hinted there will be an internal Tory investigation to try to find the Conservative MP who made anonymous "misogynistic" claims about ...

Nobody should have to suffer the kind of misogynistic abuse which that sentiment amounts to.” Told that the nature of the comments should demand an investigation be launched by the whips, Mr Philp said: “I think they will be looking at whether they know who said this. It will make things incredibly difficult for the Prime Minister." He replied: “I think across Western democracies it is important that leaders listen. It is misogynistic. “We have got another year, maybe two years, to the next general election. It is offensive. “That applies in many different countries. How do you feel leading the Labour Party into this election, these local elections?” No one has ever said anything like that to me or even hinted at it and I think everybody is appalled by the misogynistic sentiment.” Why are we measuring bodies behind desks? Sir Keir replied: “Really good.

Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves says action is needed, 'not just warm words'

The Mail on Sunday is one of the most pro-Tory papers around, but if anyone there was assuming that this report was going to damage Labour, they miscalculated massively. I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. And yet Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, who has been touring the studios to explain the non-dom tax plan, has spent much of the morning responding to a sexist report about her colleague, Angela Rayner, that first appeared in the Mail on Sunday more than 24 hours ago. This shouldn’t just be a line to take. A similar thing happened last week when he denied smearing the Church of England as pro-Putin. The local elections are less than a fortnight away, the war in Ukraine continues, and the Labour party is announcing a new tax policy. The statement will provide the commission with a clear articulation of principles and policy priorities, approved by parliament, to have regard to when going about its work. Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, has compared him to Scrooge, saying his approach to civil servants working from home is “Dickensian”. PA says: According to a report by Steven Swinford in The Times (paywall), the Sue Gray report into Partygate will be so damning that Boris Johnson may feel obliged to resign. To be clear, the new duty to have regard to the statement will not replace the commission’s other statutory duties or give the government new powers to direct the Electoral Commission’s decision-making. Chris Philp, the technology minister, was on interview duty for No 10 this morning. But the dispute between the two was “good natured”, one government source told the PA news agency.

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where the alleged breach of the Code is significant and there is a public interest in doing so”. On other clauses, an individual has to be directly affected by the article. And Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves said: “It’s a great sadness that I’m not surprised. She has admitted as much when enjoying drinks with us on the [Commons] terrace.” TalkTV political editor Kate McCann said: “You see all those female MPs and journalists tweeting their rage at this story? This sort of sexism and misogyny is the sort of rubbish that female MPs and also female staffers in the House of Commons have to put up with every single day.

Technology minister Chris Philp said he was 'appalled' by a report about claims by unnamed Tories that Angela Rayner crossed and uncrossed her legs in the ...

“I stand accused of a ‘ploy’ to ‘distract’ the helpless PM – by being a woman, having legs and wearing clothes. There is nothing surprising that two colleagues in Government have the same view and use the same words,” he said. “They share the same view. “If it ever comes out (who is responsible), I would imagine they would be subject to discipline. She has admitted as much when enjoying drinks with us on the [Commons] terrace.” They have reached the same view and they have used the same words.

No matter how far we rise, we're seen as women foremost; as hysterical and sexual objects of ridicule. By Alona Ferber. Photo by Rob Pinney ...

I recently turned 40, making me two years younger than Rayner. If anyone had told a younger me that women would still have to think about these things in 2022, I would have been thoroughly depressed. They have to deal with being seen as “even less than” because of the colour of their skin, or because, like Rayner, they are from a working class background. Women know when they are being seen as less than, when their words are taken less seriously, when their ideas are seen as less clever. On the same day as the Mail on Sunday article, there was a story that three Conservative cabinet members, out of a total of 56 MPs, have been reported to a parliamentary watchdog for sexual misconduct. As women make their way through life – even if, like Rayner, they have a seat at the decision-making table – they are often reminded that they are seen as women first and always, and as hysterical and sexual objects of ridicule. To live as a woman is to navigate humiliation.

Angela Rayner has branded the article as 'gutter journalism' and has said that Tory MPs have 'resorted to spreading desperate, perverted smears'.

“I hope this experience doesn’t put off a single person like me, with a background like mine from aspiring to participate in public life. “But it is the PM who is dragging the Conservative Party into the sewer - and the anonymous Tory MPs doing his bidding are complicit. We need more people in politics with backgrounds like mine - and fewer as a hobby to help their mates. I’m proud of my background, I’m proud of who I am and where I’m from - but it’s taken time. I am conspiring to “put him off his stride”. The rest I won’t repeat - but you get the picture. For calling this out for what it is. He and his cheerleaders clearly have a big problem with women in public life. The implication is clear. I’ve been open about how I’ve had to struggle to get where I am today. The lies they are telling. They know exactly what they are doing. In the headline of the article published online, it says that “MPs claim Labour deputy leader likes to put PM “off his stride” by crossing and uncrossing her legs at PMQs” and that Rayner “goads PM” with “gesture made famous by Sharon Stone”.

Boris Johnson has threatened to unleash "the terrors of the earth" on the Tory MP who made misogynistic claims about Angela Rayner.

A newspaper's suggestion that Angela Rayner tries to distract the prime minister by crossing her legs in the Commons was "an outrageous slur" and "sexist", ...

The 63-year-old, who said he was not a supporter of Ms Rayner and had voted Conservative at the last election, said those quoted had "shown their true colours". Taxi driver Chris Vickerstaff said it showed "what a sexist place the House of Commons is" and "behind the time" it was. Retired factory worker Margaret Derbyshire said the article was "unbelievable" and it was "disgusting for her to be smeared like this".

The claims the deputy Labour leader was crossing and uncrossing her legs to distract the PM in the Commons were reportedly made by an unnamed Tory MP.

The lies they are telling.” Senior ministers followed suit in condemning the claims. The Mail on Sunday likened the claims in the article to a scene from the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct and said she was trying to put the PM “off his stride”. “As much as I disagree with (Ms) Rayner on almost every political issue I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today,” he wrote. Speaking during a visit to Bury on Monday, Mr Johnson said he "immediately got in touch" with Ms Rayner after viewing the article, which he described as "the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe". It comes after a heavily-criticised article in the Mail on Sunday quoted an anonymous Tory who said Ms Rayner was crossing and uncrossing her legs in the Commons as part of a strategy to distract Mr Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions.