A posh extractor fan, Angela? Great for hot air!
EVEN her staunchest admirers would probably admit Angela Rayner can be prone to spouting hot air.
So it is perhaps fitting that the Labour Deputy Leader’s kitchen has been equipped with a sophisticated extractor fan.
Mrs Rayner, who is known for waxing lyrical about her working-class credentials, showed off the state-ofthe-art appliance during an interview with Left-leaning magazine The New Statesman. The fan – automatically stowed under the worktop when not in use – is remote controlled, meaning that operating it requires little more than the wag of a finger.
Similar items are on sale at John Lewis for between £1,500 and £2,000.
One, from Siemens and available for £1,699, promises to ‘keep your kitchen looking clean and minimalist’ with a noise level only marginally louder than a human voice.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP also bragged about her extra-large floor tiles. ‘Guess how much it cost to lay my tiles?’ she asked the interviewer, who was not told the cost but then remarked that Mrs Rayner’s kitchen island was the largest she had ever seen.
In the New Statesman article, Mrs Rayner, 41, a mother of three, said: ‘Everyone should be able to have nice things.’ She told the interviewer, Kate Mossman: ‘I want you to have a lovely house where you feel pride in it, not, “I’ve got a roof over my head, so I should be thankful”. Why should you have the minimum?’