Angela Rayner

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage.

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Jimmy Reid addresses a mass meeting of the Upper Clyde Shipyards workforce at Clydebank in July 1971 (Picture: Allan Milligan)

Readers' Letters: What Scottish Labour needs is a new Jimmy Reid

Housing Secretary Angela Rayner said rent controls had not worked in Scotland (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Rayner gets it – but will the Scottish government listen?

Paul Sweeney MSP, Monica Lennon and Michael Marra MSP are amongst the favourites to replace Anas Sarwar as party leader.

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Andy Burnham's victory rally at Ashton Town FC after being elected as Makerfield MP

Who will be in Andy Burnham's cabinet?

Anas Sarwar unveiling Scottish Labour's manifesto in Edinburgh

Exclusive Sarwar stays for now but next Scottish Labour leader will be divisive

Vapers are about to be hit by a new tax (Picture: Joel Saget)

As extortionate vaping tax looms, am I about to join Angela and quit? Janet Christie

Sir Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner and Andy Burnham

Analysis Starmer thought he was holding on to his belt - but Burnham arrived

Andy Burnham

Starmer under more threat as Burnham finds route back to Commons

Aberdeen-born politician Alistair Carns has only been an MP since 2024, having previously been an officer in the Royal Marines. He's priced at 14/1 for the job of Labour leader.

Who is Al Carns? The Scots veteran tipped as PM contender

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and James Murray, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, left, meet Labour Party members at Kingsdown Methodist Church Hall in Ealing, west London, on Friday

Exclusive Scots Labour MPs warn against quick Keir Starmer leadership challenge

Morgan McSweeney gave evidence to the Foreign Affairs Committee

Analysis More questions raised about Starmer's judgment - but damage is done

Nigel Farage with his Scottish candidates

Scots Reform candidate suspended less than 24 hours after being chosen

Three of the favourites to take over from Sir Keir Starmer.

Next Labour Leader Odds: 13 politicians tipped for the job

Anas Sarwar’s criticism of Sir Keir Starmer rang true, says Euan McColm Euan McColm

Cabinet rallies around Starmer as Sarwar says he should quit as PM

Keir Starmer could be heading out of Downing St

Explainer Who could replace Keir Starmer? The MPs who could take over as PM

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Analysis Starmer is no longer master of own destiny, so what happens next?

Former prime minister Gordon Brown (left) said the situation facing Keir Starmer was "serious" but backed him as a "man of integrity"

Gordon Brown says Keir Starmer leadership crisis is ‘serious’

Two people believed to be police officers at Lord Mandelson’s home

Police search two properties linked to Peter Mandelson

Ex-Hartlepool MP Lord Peter Mandelson, left, with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer before Lord Mandelson was sacked as US ambassador.

Keir Starmer U-turns over Mandelson files after Labour MPs rebel

Lord Mandelson and Keir Starmer

Analysis Keir Starmer will struggle to go on after the latest Mandelson scandal

Tenement flats along Comely Bank in Edinburgh. Picture: PA

Explainer Why Badenoch wants to scrap stamp duty, and what it means for Scotland

Bridget Phillipson and Lucy Powell are going head to head for the Labour deputy leadership

Exclusive Not updating Labour deputy leader nomination list branded 'suspicious'

Sir Keir Starmer (centre) alongside Cabinet ministers Wes Streeting (left) and Bridget Phillipson (right).

Analysis Who could replace Keir Starmer as Labour leader and Prime Minister?

Peter Mandelson, who has lost his position as Britain's Ambassador to the United States, and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in happier times. Picture: Carl Court/Pool/AFP/Getty Images

Readers Letters: Another day, another disaster for Labour as Mandelson sacked

No Scottish MP is in the running to replace Angela Rayner

Explainer Why is no Scottish MP standing in Labour's deputy leadership contest?

Former Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. PIC: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Exclusive Labour MP says it is 'wrong' he can't nominate for deputy leadership

Sturgeon defends tax arrangements and sympathy for Angela Rayner

It would take a hard heart not to feel some empathy for the circumstances in which Angela Rayner failed to pay the correct property tax (Picture: Ian Forsyth)

Why we should sympathise with Rayner but not Sturgeon over tax affairs Brian Wilson

Angela Rayner resigned as Deputy Prime Minister after the government's ethics adviser found she had breached the ministerial code (Picture: Leon Neal)

Why Angela Rayner's resignation has a silver lining for Labour Scotsman comment

Douglas Alexander appointed Scottish Secretary as Ian Murray sacked

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer

Sir John Curtice: 'Starmer's Labour really are in deep doo-doo'

Angela Rayner has resigned from government.

Updates as Angela Rayner resigns from government

Who will replace Angela Rayner following her resignation?

Explainer Here's how Angela Rayner's successor will be decided

Angela Rayner has resigned after admitting underpaying Stamp Duty to the tune of around £40,000.

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Angela Rayner's home has been daubed with graffiti.

Explainer Starmer refuses to make sack call on Rayner as flat graffiti condemned

A total of 25 businesses and organisations have been awarded grants of up to £11,000 from Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s Foundational Economy Innovation Fund

Wealth tax 'doesn't work', says leading UK minister

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to the BAE Systems' Govan facility yesterday (Picture: Andy Buchanan - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scottish Government's stance on defence spending misguided

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Analysis Bowls, bus shelters and race rows: The fight for Hamilton

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar

Sarwar losing Holyrood election could spark Labour attempt to oust PM
Labour MPs are reportedly giving Keir Starmer 12 months to turn things around - with the outcome of next year’s Holyrood election a potential trigger to oust hi...

Nicola Sturgeon speaks to media outside her house near Glasgow. Picture: John Devlin

The best April Fool's Day media pranks, from Sturgeon to Aldi water

Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, leaves 11, Downing Street to deliver her Spring Statement to Parliament on March 26, 2025.

Labour's biggest problem is not the economy, but its messaging Alexander Brown

President Trump has suspended aid to Ukraine

Zelensky says Trump clash 'regrettable' as MPs condemn end to US aid

King Charles III, accompanied by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner

The hounding of Angela Rayner is an apex moment of class awfulness Alastair GJ Stewart

Keir Starmer and the UK do not have their troubles to seek, with low growth and higher than expected inflation (Picture: Henry Nicholls/WPA pool)

Labour clinging onto 'Things Can Only Get Better' - but will they? Scotsman comment

The Old Forge, on the Knoydart Peninsula. The community buyout for the property was supported by the Community Ownership Fund

Scheme that saved Scotland's most remote pub axed despite £15m left

Liz Kendall in a regrettable photo-op

Waspi women decision shows Labour offered hope without a plan Alexander Brown

Former Conservative minister Jacob Rees-Mogg says Angela Rayner's has a right to call Tories 'scum' (Picture: Leon Neal)

Rees-Mogg's defence of Rayner's Tory 'scum' remark misses the point Scotsman comment

Anas Sarwar and Rachel Reeves will address party conference on Monday.

Anas Sarwar says SNP ‘holding back’ Scotland

(left to right from top) Angela Rayner, Ian Murray, David Lammy, Bridget Phillipson, Wes Streeting, Lisa Nandy, Ed Miliband, Yvette Cooper

Who has Sir Keir Starmer picked to be in his Cabinet?

First Minister John Swinney speaking to the media at The Port of Leith Distillery in Edinburgh, following the landslide general election victory for the Labour Party. Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire

John Swinney to rethink independence strategy after disastrous election result

Analysis Flynn lands blows as Farage celebrates poll boost in ITV debate

Did Stephen Flynn's debate performance mark him out as a future SNP leader? Euan McColm

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, leader of Plaid Cymru Rhun ap Iorwerth, Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper, Stephen Flynn of the SNP, co-leader of the Green Party Carla Denyer, deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner and Commons Leader Penny Mordaunt, take part in the BBC Election Debate hosted by BBC news presenter Mishal Husain at BBC Broadcasting House in London, ahead of the General Election on July 4. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

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