Angela Rayner

And if you look through the last cabinet, I think you could count on the fingers of one hand the ministers that could do it.

I think Angela Rayner did when she was in government.

She was a very good minister.

about a particular policy.

But the thing is, it's not affecting the ruling class.

It's not affecting Jacob Rees-Mogg or his good friend Angela Rayner or Burnham.

Or even when it does personally affect them, like people who are members of Parliament, like Sir David Amess, rather than address the underlying issue of, wow, haven't we got a lot of hostile foreigners in this country? They went down for the, well, let's just create a more authoritarian system.

Yes.

Gross.

A hotel manager, Jamie Rossiter, has sensationally estimated that just two families among the 160 he got to know personally over two years at his Buckinghamshire hotel had provable links to British forces.

He made it his job to befriend and talk to his Afghan guests after they arrived in 2021, and he's quoted as saying, They said they were painters and decorators, photocopier repairmen, or in random jobs unconnected with the British operation in Afghanistan.

He has revealed an explosive video interview that, like I say, he did with Nick Buckley, and good for Nick for having the interview.

it would be incredibly dull and probably over incredibly quickly apart from one item that's been put on the agenda by the Tories, which is local government reorganisation.

Of course, we heard about and touched on a couple of weeks ago the screeching U-turn on LGR from Angela Rayner that was announced in the Commons following the planned judicial review which I think Essex Council had tabled yesterday.

And the government then decided that actually 14 council areas were now not going to go through LGR, one of which was Staffordshire.

After substantial amounts of public money were then spent on consultations and engagement and preparing for LGR, that's now gone.

Labour is guilty of retrospective legislation to try and make Farage guilty.

Angela Rayner should never have called these people fascists.

It's all, if they're not pro-corruption, they're anti-anti-corruption, so to speak.

You know, there's nothing there.

It is.

And you see it now as well with this whole reform donation story where Angela Rayner was speaking yesterday at the Trade Union Congress down in Brighton, talking about fascism and stopping it and making sure that these reform donations must be reversed and they're going to have to give the money back and they're going to try and find a way of changing the law.

I mean, it really is quite dystopian and quite, I mean, it's laughable as long as they don't get away with it.

Yeah, I mean, look at the millions the Labour Party got in the previous election and the previous one before that.

But now, Andy Burnham is going off in the big bird.

Not Angela Rayner.

The plane tomorrow to New York to meet Donald Trump face to face.

And Burnham, from north, is going to represent our country on the world stage.

He's actually building quite steadily on what's come before.

I mean, you go back to George Osborne's Northern Powerhouse and Boris Johnson's levelling up and Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner's attempt to develop devolution and Despite a lot of instability and disagreement across parties at the UK level, there's been quite a degree of agreement and kind of steady progression of the devolution agenda.

So really what Andy Burnham is proposing is just a further systematisation, a further development of what already exists.

I mean, I suppose some of the key aspects is the move towards fiscal devolution, something that the Treasury was always expected to resist strongly.