Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has been sacked as party chairman in the aftermath of election results.
Rayner, an MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, remains deputy leader of the party which is led by Sir Kier Starmer. A Labour source told The Guardian: “Keir said he was taking full responsibility for the result of the elections – and he said we need to change. "That means change how we run our campaigns in the future.
Angela will continue to play a senior role in Keir’s team.” Former shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the decision to remove Angela Rayner as Labour’s chairman and campaigns chief was a “cowardly avoidance of responsibility”.
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