Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour Party: women face different and often greater obstacles than men in politics. Picture: Bloomberg
Last week, the Mail on Sunday newspaper ran a rather squalid story about Angela Rayner, the deputy leader of the British Labour Party, which compared her to Sharon Stone’s character in the film Fatal Attraction. Rayner, according to unnamed Conservative MPs quoted in the piece, had been “goading” Boris Johnson during prime minister’s questions in the House of Commons by crossing and uncrossing her legs.
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