The Scottish Mail on Sunday

Rayner puts the boot in – again!

- By Peter Henn

SHE is known for her blistering political views and sticking the boot into the Tories while wearing her trademark chunky footwear.

Now Angela Rayner, Labour’s Deputy Leader, has been spotted in her new favourites, a pair of black ‘flatform’ lug sole lace-ups decorated with colourful flowers.

She sported the £27.50 vegan leather Lamoda In Bloom sneakers at yesterday’s unveiling of a statue of pioneering Labour firebrand and former Blackburn MP Barbara Castle.

As The Mail on Sunday reported last month, Rayner, the 41-year-old MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, kicked out at the Tories during the Labour Party conference, branding them ‘homophobic, racist, misogynist scum’.

Unveiling the statue in Blackburn yesterday alongside Labour’s

Anger at Rayner’s ‘Etonian scum’ rant

former Home Secretary Jack Straw, an unrepentan­t Ms Rayner vowed ‘to always be outspoken’ like Baroness Castle and said she was proud to follow ‘the ginger Northerner’.

 ?? ?? FEET FIRST: Angela Rayner shows off her trendy footwear next to Jack Straw and a statue of Barbara Castle. Left: Our headline and a close-up of the sneakers
FEET FIRST: Angela Rayner shows off her trendy footwear next to Jack Straw and a statue of Barbara Castle. Left: Our headline and a close-up of the sneakers
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