CUTTING Angela Rayner loose will not end the trouble she has caused Sir Keir Starmer – in fact it could get a whole lot worse.
Millions of appalled voters will rightly expect her to scurry sheepishly off into the deep freeze along with any future ambitions.
In the looming battle for the soul of the Labour party, it is easy to see Angela Rayner emerging as the socialists’ standard bearer
It is no secret Rayner is far to the left of Sir Keir Starmer, and that theirs has always been a tricky forced political marriage
But to her legions of militant supporters, she is far from a busted flush – she is a martyr, and soon quite possibly their Red Queen over the water.
It is no secret is far to the left of , and that theirs has always been a tricky forced political marriage.
Remember when tried to clip her wings in 2021 only to end up giving her a promotion after she kicked off big time?
Now outside tent – and with no real sense of loyalty to the PM – she could turn from .
Many in the tribe are already furious with for turning his back on the left-wing causes he once championed.
From , to , to , there is no shortage of issues on which soft-left MPs are ready to scrap with .
As the PM tries to stem the bleeding to with more hardline policies, those rows will only intensify.
Especially given new rabble and threaten to sap voters from Labour’s leftward flank.
In this looming battle for the soul of the party, it is easy to see emerging as the socialists’ standard bearer.
With the might of the unions and members also on her side, could quickly accumulate a large powerbase.
Maybe one even big enough to mobilise against her old boss.
Think of the grief or caused and from the backbenches, leading to their downfalls.
Starmer had no choice but to push Rayner out.
Her fate was set as soon as Sir Laurie Magnus threw the book at her for breaking the ministerial code.
In this looming battle for the soul of the party, it is easy to see Rayner emerging as the socialists’ standard bearer
His gushing, personal, hand-written goodbye note is as clear a sign as any that he wanted to give her the heave-ho in as gentle a way as possible.
But it might not stay friendly for long.
