Rayner’s comments to activists at a party reception on Saturday evening threatened to dominate the first full day of the Labour conference in Brighton as Keir Starmer distanced himself from the remarks.
The deputy Labour leader gave Boris Johnson’s party both barrels in a late-night fringe at the Labour Party conference. She told party members: “I’m sick of shouting from the sidelines, and I bet you lot are too.
We cannot get any worse than a bunch of scum, homophobic, racist, mysoginistic, absolute pile …of banana republic…Etonian…piece of scum…and I held back a little…that I have ever seen in my life.”She said the remarks were made “post-watershed” at an event for Labour activists and stressed that it was levelled at senior ministers.
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