Post by jonksy on Sept 22, 2024 17:56:47 GMT
Rayner and Starmer cannot believe their luck in winning the election , it was like winning the lottery ,no party ever deserved to win less and so few voted for them . They only won because there was no one else standing because Sunak was so frightend of the Reform Party and gave them no time to organise that meant he handed the election on a plate to Labour. Had Starmer waited there could have been a coalition between Reform and the Conservatives .
A crying shame: Angela Rayner's tears of joy as she kicks off Labour conference boasting about election win - but is forced to fend off MORE damaging 'freebies' revelations......
Angela Rayner fought back tears of joy as she opened the Labour Party Conference today - despite a Labour freebie crisis and looming union battle over winter fuel payments for pensioners.
The Deputy Prime Minister this morning opened the Labour conference in Liverpool, the first to take place with the party in power in 15 years.
And she opened by thanking voters who backed the party at the July election, saying: 'You entrusted us with the task of change and we will not forget it. You kept faith with us and we will keep faith with you.'
But it came amid a simmering row over clothing money from a top party donor accepted by Ms Rayner and other senior Labour figures including Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.
She is also facing questions over a New Year holiday to New York where she stayed at Lord Alli's £2m apartment, after it emerged her ex-boyfriend Sam Tarry stayed with her.
The party conference is also set to be a difficult one, with trade unions demanding the reinstatement of universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, which the Government is making means-tested to save money.
Ms Rayner told the conference: 'They thought our Party was history. But this year Conference we made history. Together. Not just a victory for our party but a victory of our values.'
But shadow foreign minister Alicia Kearns said: 'Labour offered a government of service, but all they've shown is a government of self-service with blatant efforts to mislead: office costs turn out to be clothes, a holiday for one is a romantic getaway for two.
'The irony of Angela Rayner labelling herself as 'overly transparent' after failing to declare who was on her all-expenses paid holiday to New York won't be lost on the British people, not least pensioners who will suffer this winter as they're forced to choose between heating and eating because of Labour's cruel cuts to Winter Fuel Payments.'
The Deputy Prime Minister this morning opened the Labour conference in Liverpool, the first to take place with the party in power in 15 years.
And she opened by thanking voters who backed the party at the July election, saying: 'You entrusted us with the task of change and we will not forget it. You kept faith with us and we will keep faith with you.'
But it came amid a simmering row over clothing money from a top party donor accepted by Ms Rayner and other senior Labour figures including Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves.
She is also facing questions over a New Year holiday to New York where she stayed at Lord Alli's £2m apartment, after it emerged her ex-boyfriend Sam Tarry stayed with her.
The party conference is also set to be a difficult one, with trade unions demanding the reinstatement of universal winter fuel payments for pensioners, which the Government is making means-tested to save money.
Ms Rayner told the conference: 'They thought our Party was history. But this year Conference we made history. Together. Not just a victory for our party but a victory of our values.'
But shadow foreign minister Alicia Kearns said: 'Labour offered a government of service, but all they've shown is a government of self-service with blatant efforts to mislead: office costs turn out to be clothes, a holiday for one is a romantic getaway for two.
'The irony of Angela Rayner labelling herself as 'overly transparent' after failing to declare who was on her all-expenses paid holiday to New York won't be lost on the British people, not least pensioners who will suffer this winter as they're forced to choose between heating and eating because of Labour's cruel cuts to Winter Fuel Payments.'
