PM hopes for Rayner return

ANGELA Rayner will be a “big voice" in the future, Keir Starmer said, with a promise she will return to frontline politics “at the right point”.

- BY SOPHIE HUSKISSON

The Prime Minister praised his former deputy, who was forced to resign over a tax row in September, for helping Labour get elected.

He echoed a comment allegedly made by Rayner to a group of Labour MPs that she is “not dead yet”.

Asked about her remark, Starmer said: “I've always said Angela has not only played a part in Labour politics, in our country’s politics, but has a big part to play in the future.