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Boris Johnson has defended Angela Rayner and accused an anonymous Conservative MP of “misogyny” over claims that she crosses and uncrosses her legs during ...

Ms Rayner tore into the prime minister and his Tory colleagues for 'vile lies'

In a series of tweets, Ms Rayner lashed out at the “lies” being briefed about her. I’m proud of my background, I’m proud of who I am and where I’m from - but it’s taken time,” she added. The prime minister added: “France is one of our closest and most important allies. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. There’s an immense amount of pressure on her — her report could be enough to end him. I won’t be letting their vile lies deter me.

The claims which were reportedly made by an unnamed Tory MP have been widely condemned as sexist.

The lies they are telling.” Senior ministers followed suit in condemning the claims. She said Mr Johnson and his backers “clearly have a big problem with women in public life” and that they “should be ashamed of themselves”. According to the Telegraph, the Prime Minister sent the deputy Labour leader a letter on Sunday in response to a report in the Mail on Sunday which has been condemned by Tory and Labour MPs alike. The article claimed that an unnamed Tory MP had told the newspaper Ms Rayner crossed and uncrossed her legs on the Labour front bench during Prime Minister’s Questions in an attempt to distract Mr Johnson. oris Johnson has written to Angela Rayner to insist “misogynistic” claims reportedly made about her by an unidentified Tory MP were not in his name.

The MP who briefed a “misogynistic” claim that Labour's Angela Rayner tries to distract the Prime Minister in the Commons will be disciplined if caught, ...

“She doesn’t need to use her sex to win an argument or put the Prime Minister off, or whatever was suggested in that article. “There is nothing surprising that two colleagues in Government have the same view and use the same words.” “They have reached the same view and they have used the same words.

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The Mail on Sunday is one of the most pro-Tory papers around, but if anyone there was assuming that this report was going to damage Labour, they miscalculated massively. I try to monitor the comments below the line (BTL) but it is impossible to read them all. And yet Rachel Reeves, the shadow chancellor, who has been touring the studios to explain the non-dom tax plan, has spent much of the morning responding to a sexist report about her colleague, Angela Rayner, that first appeared in the Mail on Sunday more than 24 hours ago. This shouldn’t just be a line to take. A similar thing happened last week when he denied smearing the Church of England as pro-Putin. The local elections are less than a fortnight away, the war in Ukraine continues, and the Labour party is announcing a new tax policy. The statement will provide the commission with a clear articulation of principles and policy priorities, approved by parliament, to have regard to when going about its work. Nadine Dorries, the culture secretary, has compared him to Scrooge, saying his approach to civil servants working from home is “Dickensian”. PA says: According to a report by Steven Swinford in The Times (paywall), the Sue Gray report into Partygate will be so damning that Boris Johnson may feel obliged to resign. To be clear, the new duty to have regard to the statement will not replace the commission’s other statutory duties or give the government new powers to direct the Electoral Commission’s decision-making. Chris Philp, the technology minister, was on interview duty for No 10 this morning. But the dispute between the two was “good natured”, one government source told the PA news agency.

Prime Minister Johnson has distanced himself from reports that Tory MPs say Angela Rayner is using a "Basic Instinct-style ploy" to distract him.

He subsequently contacted Rayner personally, the BBC reported. The lies they are telling." An article in the Mail on Sunday reported that Conservative backbenchers have claimed Rayner tries to distract the prime minister in the Commons by repeatedly crossing and uncrossing her legs.

The claims the deputy Labour leader was crossing and uncrossing her legs to distract the PM in the Commons were reportedly made by an unnamed Tory MP.

The lies they are telling.” Senior ministers followed suit in condemning the claims. The Mail on Sunday likened the claims in the article to a scene from the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct and said she was trying to put the PM “off his stride”. “As much as I disagree with (Ms) Rayner on almost every political issue I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today,” he wrote. Speaking during a visit to Bury on Monday, Mr Johnson said he "immediately got in touch" with Ms Rayner after viewing the article, which he described as "the most appalling load of sexist, misogynist tripe". It comes after a heavily-criticised article in the Mail on Sunday quoted an anonymous Tory who said Ms Rayner was crossing and uncrossing her legs in the Commons as part of a strategy to distract Mr Johnson at Prime Minister's Questions.

PM attacks 'misogyny' of paper's claim that Labour deputy leader tries to distract him with leg-crossing ploy.

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The charge is that during sessions where Angela Rayner has stepped in for Keir Starmer at Prime Minister's Questions, she has crossed and uncrossed her legs to ...

If Rayner throws Johnson off his stride it is not because of her legs: it’s because he knows that she is everything he isn’t. She is sharp where he is tired. She is hard-working where he is lazy. If we need any further evidence that the MP who offered this “exclusive” is a crank and an idiot, we need only look to what he believes is the strategy behind it. Where the Labour leader can be wooden and slow to deviate from script, Rayner is punchy, sharp and funny. He knows that if he says it often enough and loudly enough there are some commenters who will regardless declare that he gave an “assured” performance.

Minister says whips should investigate, as shadow chancellor says other female MPs face sexism on daily basis.

It’s just disgusting and it doesn’t do justice to the brilliant women we have in parliament from all sides.” She does it by the strength of her argument, and to suggest otherwise. Johnson is also understood to have written directly to Rayner. The contents of the letter have not been shared, except for one quote reported by the Telegraph that stated: “The comments were not in my name.”

Boris Johnson said he deplored the article about Labour's deputy leader and was understood to have shared his view with Ms Rayner in a "short but heartfelt" ...

"This sort of sexism and misogyny is frankly the sort of rubbish that female MPs but also female staffers in the House of Commons have to put up with every single day. Boris Johnson has said he deplores "the misogyny directed at her anonymously" and is understood to have communicated that view in a "short but heartfelt" WhatsApp message to Ms Rayner. Boris Johnson said he deplored the article about Labour's deputy leader and was understood to have shared his view with Ms Rayner in a "short but heartfelt" WhatsApp message.

Labour's deputy leader says she is victim of 'sexism and misogyny' after Mail on Sunday report.

“I like the Mail on Sunday and I enjoy reading it but I think it’s a totally ludicrous story that I don’t recognise,” he said. “I stand accused of a ‘ploy’ to ‘distract’ the helpless PM – by being a woman, having legs and wearing clothes,” Rayner said. She has admitted as much when enjoying drinks with us on the [Commons] terrace.”

In a new low Tory MPs sparked an angry row on sexism by likening the deputy Labour leader to a fully-clothed version of Sharon Stone's infamous film scene.

We need more people in politics with backgrounds like mine - and fewer as a hobby to help their mates.” The lies they are telling.” “I stand accused of a ‘ploy’ to ‘distract the helpless PM. By being a woman, having legs and wearing clothes I am conspiring to “put him off his stride”.

Tory MPs have likened the Labour deputy leader to Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct in a widely-criticised article.

You are making a stand in the name of decency - against those who would further coarsen, cheapen and debase our politics to benefit their own interests. “This is a totally ludicrous story that I don’t recognise in any way at all," Mr Dowden told Sky News’ Ridge on Sunday programme. We need more people in politics with backgrounds like mine - and fewer as a hobby to help their mates. "I hope this experience doesn’t put off a single person like me, with a background like mine from aspiring to participate in public life. "But it is the PM who is dragging the Conservative Party into the sewer - and the anonymous Tory MPs doing his bidding are complicit. I’m proud of my background, I’m proud of who I am and where I’m from - but it’s taken time.

The original Mail on Sunday story likens Ms Rayner's alleged ploy to a fully-clothed equivalent of Sharon Stone's infamous scene in the film Basic Instinct.

We need more people in politics with backgrounds like mine - and fewer as a hobby to help their mates. "I hope this experience doesn't put off a single person like me, with a background like mine from aspiring to participate in public life. "I stand accused of a 'ploy' to 'distract' the helpless PM - by being a woman, having legs and wearing clothes. "But it is the PM who is dragging the Conservative Party into the sewer - and the anonymous Tory MPs doing his bidding are complicit. I'm proud of my background, I'm proud of who I am and where I'm from - but it's taken time. This morning's is the latest dose of gutter journalism courtesy of Mail on Sunday politics.

The Prime Minister said he 'deplores the misogyny' directed at Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner.

“I stand accused of a ‘ploy’ to ‘distract’ the helpless PM – by being a woman, having legs and wearing clothes. Referencing the article, Labour MP Jess Phillips tweeted: “Jesus this Angela Rayner at PMQs story is a genuine new low. C) WT actual F”. They ought to know better,” she said. “It is disgraceful that colleagues are running to the newspapres with pathetic stories like this and they should be hanging their heads in shame this morning. Tory MP Caroline Nokes, Chair of the Women and Equalities Committee, denounced it as a “dirty, little story” and told LBC radio the colleagues behind the story should “hang their heads in shame”.

The Prime Minister took to Twitter on Sunday amid a growing storm over comments about Ms Rayner in a Sunday newspaper article.

“At the end of the day Angela Rayner is an MP who got elected on merit. She told the show: “I feel like I can’t even read and look at it because this story is so disgraceful. The Prime Minister took to Twitter on Sunday amid a growing storm over comments about Ms Rayner in a Sunday newspaper article

Ms Rayner had been accused by her Tory colleagues of putting the prime minister 'off his stride' in the Commons.

Sir Keir told the BBC: “I do know that over 50 fines have been issued in relation to what went on in Downing Street. That is extraordinary. “The British people rightly have high expectations of the State. We need to reform Government with a smaller, high-performing and correctly incentivised Civil Service, where talented officials thrive. As the minister responsible for government property, it is my job to ensure the government estate is run efficiently and commercially. “If there are people from my party, there should be a zero tolerance to this. This necessarily means a smaller but better-used Government estate in the heart of Whitehall. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. This, perhaps, is the trade-off. Keir Starmer is calling for asylum seekers trapped in “misery” in French camps to be allowed to apply to come to the UK, to ease the Channel crossings crisis. The Mail on Sunday this morning claimed that Ms Rayner had been accused by her Tory colleagues of putting the prime minister “off his stride” in the chamber by crossing and uncrossing her legs. Culture secretary Nadine Dorries and prime minister Boris Johnson appear to have shared identical tweets in condemnation of suggestions Angela Rayner had been using a “Basic Instinct ploy” to distract the PM in the Commons. The paper claimed that Ms Rayner had been accused by her Tory colleagues of putting the prime minister “off his stride” in the chamber by crossing and uncrossing her legs. Speaking to the BBC’s Sunday Morning programme, Sir Keir Stamer added: “I also can’t help feeling, I’m afraid, that there is a bit of distraction tactics in this to stop everybody talking about the wrongdoing of the prime minister and the cost-of-living crisis.”

Angela Rayner has accused Tory MPs of using anonymous briefings to spread “desperate, perverted smears” about her by claiming she has sought to…

It’s a reminder of the deep misogyny women face every day. The lies they are telling.” The First Minister tweeted: “Solidarity from across the political divide to Angela Rayner on this. Mr Johnson tweeted: “As much as I disagree with Angela Rayner on almost every political issue, I respect her as a parliamentarian and deplore the misogyny directed at her anonymously today.” “To talk about the fact she is using her legs or her posture to manipulate the Prime Minister is ridiculous and I’m really upset about it.” Angela Rayner has accused Tory MPs of using anonymous briefings to spread “desperate, perverted smears” about her by claiming she has sought to distract the Prime Minister provocatively in the Commons.

An article claims Tory MPs have accused the deputy Labour leader of trying to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons by "crossing and uncrossing her legs".

She should be proud of her achievements and for the leadership she shows." The anonymous misogynist fuelling this story is contributing to the atmosphere in which many women don’t feel that public life is for them. Their attempts to harass and intimidate me will fail".