PMQs review: Angela Rayner struggles to change the narrative

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PMQs review: Angela Rayner struggles to change the narrative

Angela Rayner usually relishes standing in for Keir Starmer at PMQs when the Prime Minister is abroad. Her style is comic, Boris Johnson-esque. She loves flinging barbs across the despatch box at those Tory posh boys. Today was different. Rayner herself became the target of the parliamentary ribbing that those who want to succeed in British politics must perfect. She knew from the first question that the months of speculation around her tax affa…