Rayner is picking her local election campaign partners carefully. Only allies…
Housing minister Miatta Fahnbulleh has been sending out the invites to Labour members with the title: “Get the Vote Out with Anegla Rayner & Miatta Fahnbulleh.“ Yes, that is her typo – so much for friendship…
Fahnbulleh is former chief executive of the leftist New Economics Foundation and was “senior economic adviser” to Rayner prior to entering parliament in 2024. She has emailed Labour members inviting them to join her and Rayner in her constituency of Peckham on Monday:
“On Monday 20th April, I will be joined by Angela Rayner to Get the Vote Out . We will be meeting at [LOCATION] to flood the area with the values and spirit of the Labour Party.
If you want to see Southwark Council continue its outstanding work across Peckham, please come and join us. Don’t forget to tell your friends, family and colleagues so we can show Angela what Peckham is made of.”
Rayner has in the last few weeks been briefing that she will campaign in the locals to flex her political muscles and so on. The former Deputy PM appeared at a school visit this week with Starmer and Andy Burnham in what was seen as an olive branch. Starmer’s position has strengthened in the eyes of Labourites since the height of the Mandelson scandal…
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