Comrade Rayner is no friend of Britain

HAROLD Wilson once said “the Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing”. Such a claim helped build a climate of moral superiority where too many activists believed they had a monopoly on compassion. Such self-regard was riddled with hypocrisies as socialists failed to practise what they preach. The Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner is a classic example.

- Leo McKinstry

This is a politician who blathers about the need for kindness in public life, yet calls her Tory opponents “scum”.’ She trumpets her commitment to “equality”, then seeks to introduce a special blasphemy law on Islamophobia to protect the sensitivities of Muslims.

Shrieking about housing shortages, her Government has gone to war against second homeowners, but this week it emerged she is building an impressive property portfolio, which includes a large period house in her constituency, a magnificent grace-and-favour residence in Whitehall and a luxurious £800,000 seafront flat in the town of Hove. The stench from her double standards is now wafting along the Sussex coast.