‘Should be ashamed’ Furious Rayner fumes at ‘perverted smears’ from ‘Boris’s cheerleaders’

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Ms Rayner was left seething after an unnamed Tory accused her of using a so-called “Basic Instinct ploy” to “distract” Boris Johnson at the dispatch box when they spar during Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs). An anonymous MP was quoted in a Sunday newspaper article as claiming the Labour firebrand enjoyed attempting to put Mr Johnson “off his stride” during PMQs by “crossing and uncrossing her legs”.

Ms Rayner often sits next to Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and opposite the Prime Minister during the weekly Commons clashes.

She has also stood in for Sir Keir at PMQs when he has been forced to self-isolate due to coronavirus.

In a series of tweets, Ms Rayner lashed out at the “lies” being briefed about her.

The Ashton-under-Lyne MP said: “Boris Johnson’s cheerleaders have resorted to spreading desperate, perverted smears in their doomed attempts to save his skin.

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“They know exactly what they are doing. The lies they are telling.”

She said Mr Johnson and his backers “clearly have a big problem with women in public life” and that they “should be ashamed of themselves”.

Ms Rayner added: “I won’t be letting their vile lies deter me. Their attempts to harass and intimidate me will fail.”

Tulip Siddiq, the shadow economic secretary to the Treasury, said the accusations were “disgraceful”.

The Labour politician told Sky News’s Sophy Ridge On Sunday: “At the end of the day, Angela Rayner is an MP who was elected on merit.

“To talk about the fact she is using her legs or her posture to manipulate the Prime Minister is ridiculous and I’m really upset about it.”

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