Perhaps carried away by the feel good mood at Labour conference, Wes Streeting called for Angela Rayner to return to Government at some point.
“We want her back, we need her back,” he said of one of the party’s most popular and recognisable figures.
It is just a few weeks since Rayner left Government amid a scandal over stamp duty underpayment on a flat purchase.
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Streeting’s team have said the line was an ad lib. After praising the work of social care workers and talking up a fair pair agreement for such workers, he called Rayner “the care worker who became our country’s deputy prime minister”.
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