UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has suggested former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has a ‘future role to play’ in government.
Rayner resigned in September after it emerged she did not pay enough stamp duty on an £800,000 flat in Hove.
Labour’s former deputy leader remains a popular figure within the party and Starmer said he wanted to bring her back to the front line ‘at the right point’.
Rayner, the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in Greater Manchester, is viewed as a potential successor to Starmer or, if she did not run herself, as someone whose support could have a significant influence on the outcome of any contest.
‘I would like to have Angela back at the right point. I’ve always been clear she has a future role to play,’ the prime minister told Times Radio.
‘She played a huge part in the achievement that we got at the last election; getting elected, we’ve just passed the Employment Rights Act, which has got her fingerprints all over it.’
By David Hughes, PA Political Editor
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