Angela Rayner insists that she wants to be “never” Labor leader after leaking memo

Angela Rayner has said she “never” wants to be Labor Leader.

It comes to a memo that the deputy prime minister sent to the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, This week, eight new tax increases and two changes in performance were required.

The Chancellor has not imposed any of these suggestions and went in a radically different direction in her spring statement.

But the leak, which was first reported by the Telegraph, has led to speculation that Rayner himself was in mind of being a Labor leader himself.

Tory Chairman Kemi Badenoch even accused Rayner of being on the questions of the Prime Minister in the government this week in the government “Manöver”.

However, the minister today rejected such suggestions for Sky News.

The moderator Trevor Phillips transferred it to the deputy prime minister that she wanted to show the lead that she would offer, and the memo acted as a “kind of manifest”.

“Absolutely not,” she said. “I don't want to be a leader of the Labor Party. I am very happy and honored to be deputy prime minister of this country, and I have a lot in my dream to prove that I can do the job I do and transfer these milestones for this country.”

When Rayner was challenged by Phillips, she added that she wanted this leadership role.

The deputy prime minister, who is also the real estate secretary, also played the effects of her suggestions.

“I will not discuss talks or Lecks Trevor, because that's not how we do the government,” she said.

“I will say that it is not a rocket science that the deputy prime minister talks to the Chancellor and talks about financial events in the round or that I will be for my department.

“I could sit here and say: 'No, it doesn't happen', but you know what, most of your viewers will know that it is quite common.

“It is not okay when leaks happen, because I think that undermines all of us as a team and I don't think that's the right thing, I think it's unfair.”

She said that the cabinet speaks as a team: “It's not a shock”.

Phillips pointed out that the cupboards have not always been so communicative in the past.

The minister struck back: “Ok, today I can only confirm that we are doing it.”

She said that a leak request was in progress and “rightly so” because Lecks are “very harmful”.

“We have a lot of sensitive conversations in the round, and then we make a collective decision. We had to cope with some really serious challenges that we took out of the Tories,” said Rayner.

“It is wrong for individuals or people to lick these people. I do not agree at all.”

However, she refused to say whether she has the feeling that taxes have to rise while ending the cost of living and that such conversations have to be done privately.

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