Lia Nici

2022 - 7 - 10

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Outrage as Grimsby MP Lia Nici accuses Labour's Angela Rayner of ... (Grimsby Live)

In response, Naz Shah, the Shadow Minister for Crime Reduction and Bradford West MP, addressed Ms Nici and said: "I don't know what's more disappointing, Lia - ...

The misogyny that people like Angela Rayner have faced by Parliamentarians in that space, the sleaze." Alan tweeted: "Watching the local Politics show BBC Politics North who had @lia_nici on, whilst discussing Johnson going used 'Angela Rayner opening her legs' as an excuse was both insulting & abhorrent. Ms Shah continued: "To actually try and take it away from the failure of this government, not just now, but for the last 12 years of austerity.

Anger as new Tory minister repeats discredited Angela Rayner leg ... (Mirror.co.uk)

The newspaper article quoted claims the deputy Labour leader distracted Boris Johnson at PMQs by crossing and uncrossing her legs like in the film Basic ...

They really are unfit to govern. "Instead he promoted them to ministerial office. “But it was also steeped in classism as well and about where I come from and how I grew up - that I must be thick and I must be stupid because I went to a comprehensive school. She went on: “It wasn’t just about me as a woman, saying I was using the fact I was a woman against the Prime Minister. "The deputy shadow leader decided it would be amusing to open her legs in the chamber and then brag to everybody that actually it was male members of the opposite party who had been looking at her and she was drinking on the terrace and laughing about it." "Listening to a fellow woman talk about another woman opening her legs in Parliament using that kind of misogynistic language, or the whataboutery to actually try and take it away from the failure of this government not just now, but for the last 12 years of austerity."

Government minister repeats claim Angela Rayner 'opened her legs ... (Telegraph.co.uk)

Lia Nici repeated the allegation, despite the Prime Minister previously dismissing it as 'sexist, misogynistic tripe'

In April, MPs on both sides of the Commons condemned the claims that Ms Rayner had crossed and uncrossed her legs on the Labour front bench in an attempt to distract Mr Johnson. A new government minister has repeated the controversial claim that Angela Rayner "opened her legs" in the Commons to distract Boris Johnson. "The deputy shadow leader decided it would be amusing to open her legs in the chamber and then brag to everybody that actually it was male members of the opposite party who had been looking at her and she was drinking on the terrace and laughing about it."

New minister Lia Nici repeats Angela Rayner legs slur (BBC News)

Lia Nici MP repeated claims that Labour's Angela Rayner decided to "open her legs" in the Commons.

Instead he promoted them to ministerial office," she tweeted. Instead he promoted them to ministerial office.— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) "Boris Johnson promised to unleash 'the terrors of the earth' on the Tory MPs spreading these vile smears. Boris Johnson promised to unleash “the terrors of the earth” on the Tory MPs spreading these vile smears. In response, Mr Johnson threatened to unleash "the terrors of the earth" on the source behind the comments if they were ever identified. A newly-appointed minister has repeated claims made against Labour's Angela Rayner that she "opened her legs" to distract Boris Johnson in the Commons.

Tory minister doubles down on claims Angela Rayner 'opened her ... (The National)

A NEWLY appointed Tory minister has doubled down on claims that Angela Rayner “opened her legs” in the Commons to distract Boris Johnson.

So this newly appointed Tory Minister @lia_nici spreads smears that @AngelaRayner “opened her legs in Parliament” to distract @BorisJohnson. She’s not fit to hold her ministerial office." They really are unfit to govern. Instead he promoted them to ministerial office. Instead he promoted them to ministerial office.— Angela Rayner 🌹 (@AngelaRayner) Boris Johnson promised to unleash “the terrors of the earth” on the Tory MPs spreading these vile smears. A NEWLY appointed Tory minister has doubled down on claims that Angela Rayner “opened her legs” in the Commons to distract Boris Johnson.

New Tory minister Lia Nici repeats 'sexist' Angela Rayner ... (Yorkshire Post)

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She was drinking on the terrace and laughing about it.” Our political team and Westminster Correspondent are Yorkshire's eyes and ears in the corridors of power. In April, the Mail on Sunday likened the claims to a scene from the 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct and said she was trying to put the PM “off his stride”.

Tory MP 'should be ashamed' for repeating 'misogynistic' smear ... (Evening Standard)

Boris Johnson previously said he 'deplored' the 'misogyny' directed at Angela Rayner.

“Instead he promoted them to ministerial office. “ ngela Rayner has said a Tory MP should be “ashamed of herself” after repeating claims the deputy leader of the Opposition tried to distract Boris Johnson with her legs in the House of Commons.