Yesterday Guido revealed Angela Rayner’s numerous wildly inconsistent career history claims. A spokesman for Rayner pointed Guido to background supplied by sources in Stockport Council which state that the FoI which said she was employed from 2000 to 2005 as a home help “needs clarification” and that between “April 2005 and January 2015 her substantive job as a home help remained the same.” Sources close to Rayner told the Mail last night “she was elected to two trade union roles at Unison – assistant branch secretary in 2005 and branch secretary in 2011– but her permanent and substantive role remained as a home help.” Is ‘substantive role’ a new Mellinger ‘Key Worker’ concept?
Rayner’s spokesman did not provide any comment on the inconsistencies in Rayner’s statements about her home help career history. These are:
That’s a few different statements there. Rayner’s spokesman declined to answer three additional questions:
Sources who spoke to Lord Ashcroft for his unauthorised biography of Rayner Red Queen make clear that she began working fully in her UNISON capacity on ‘facility time’ seconded from the council from 2002. The book concludes Rayner was a employed as a home help “for just three years or so”…
The Tories are calling for questions to be answered as usual. Will be harder to blame inconsistencies on staff seeing as the statements are from the horse’s mouth…
Starmer loyalist and Housing Secretary Steve Reed told Sky News that Starmer should not be replaced:
“We saw what the Tories did. They were in power for 14 years, and after 2016, I think we had nine education secretaries, seven chancellors, and five Prime Ministers. Doomscrolling through Prime Ministers doesn’t resolve the problem.”