Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer on the campaign trail in Birmingham last week. Photograph: Getty Images
Angela Rayner and Keir Starmer on the campaign trail in Birmingham last week. Photograph: Getty Images
Tue 11 May 2021 11.24 EDT
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Keir Starmer picked a fight with his deputy Angela Rayner last weekend and lost. He sacked her as party chair and national campaign coordinator on Saturday, when the election results were still rolling in â and some of them deserved to be celebrated, unlike the wounding defeats that had emerged until that point. The timing was poor, with many wondering why the leader would not wait for the full electoral picture to be known first. The politics was controversial, too, as Rayner â despite her title â did not oversee the campaign, yet it looked like she was being blamed for the result. The word âscapegoatâ cropped up everywhere, though Starmer maintains that he takes âfull responsibi
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