Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff talks through the tax row that brought down the now former deputy prime minister
Angela Rayner’s political stock had never been higher.
After a difficult summer for the government, Rayner was more popular than ever with Labour’s backbench MPs. She was winning over the grassroots with her workers’ rights bill, about to pass through parliament. And after she was pictured vaping on an inflatable kayak in late August, even rightwing outlets were describing her as ‘iconic’.
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