Sidelined? No – Angela Rayner’s ambitious housing plan may be the making of her
The IndependentDefinitely not sidelined at all, deputy prime minister Angela Rayner was allowed to deliver a very important statement and introduce a major piece of legislation on the last day before the House of Commons broke up for its summer recess. Rayner said her task was “urgent” and that the record numbers of people in temporary accommodation was “unforgivable”, but she didn’t quite match Rachel Reeves’s stern fury of the day before. Rayner, like Reeves, accused the Conservatives of having “ducked” the difficult decisions, which meant that the new Labour government had no choice but to take “radical” action. Kemi Badenoch, Rayner’s shadow, described Labour’s aim of 370,000 new homes a year by the end of this parliament as a “distant aspiration, rather than a meaningful target”. But Badenoch’s clash with Rayner was mild compared with the locking of horns between Reeves and Jeremy Hunt, the shadow chancellor, the previous day, which escalated into Reeves accusing him of having “lied”.
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