Rayner Changes Tune on Becoming Prime Minister – Guido Fawkes

Rayner Changes Tune on Becoming Prime Minister

Angela Rayner was on The Guardian’s Politics Weekly podcast this morning to chat about what she’s been up to. Rayner’s team have just finished lugging their boxes into her new, windowless office. The official launch of the ODPM still to come…

Asked if she could imagine herself as “Prime Minister, Angela Rayner,” she pointedly dodged the chance to rule it out – instead rattling off her CV:

“That question that comes up all the time. I am absolutely honored to do the job. As you say, my job is really, really big. And you know what, one of the things that I’ve wanted to prove, and hopefully I’ve done that, you might not agree with my policy agenda, but you can’t fault my delivery and you can’t fault the performance of me being able to work a department, work with my colleagues and to drive change.”

A change of tune from earlier this month, when she told Loose Women: “I always say not a chance” and when she told Sky News  in May she had “no desire” to be PM. Number 10 won’t be thrilled to hear fresh fuel poured on the rumours that the Red Queen has her eye on the crown…