KEIR “son of a toolmaker” Starmer aside, Angela Rayner is the Labour Party’s ultimate working-class hero. So how DARE the new Deputy PM step out for her first days of duty in snazzy new clothing from a very middle-class outfit Me+Em. The retailer is, after all, a staple of Kate Middleton and Co.
She should stick to her lane, and be gracing No 10 in hand-me-downs or/and rags. Sigh. Yep, as if this woman, born and raised on a Stockport council estate, hasn’t already faced a professional lifetime of rampant misogyny and bile, now she has come under fire from certain right-wing commentators for daring to wear a mint green power suit costing £550 and a £227 orange dress at the following day’s first Cabinet meeting.
The depressing reality is that powerful women, especially MPs, really can’t win. Instead of championing the self-made woman, political commentators looking for a quick like, retweet or reaction, seek to knock. The former glamour model Leilani Dowding tweeted: “Well that was an utter waste of 550 quid.
It looks s***.” (Ah, the sisterhood!) Perhaps she’d rather the 44-year-old grandmother stroll into Westminster topless. Her background is one of genuine hardship and she is one of the very few conviction politicians who actually understands some of her voters.
A GB News commentator has now deleted his tweet after he slammed Angela for daring to cast herself as a working-class representative and then wear some pretty clothes, rather than ones made in a B.
