Thanks to readers for your headline suggestions, including “Big Ange gone” (Nick from Altrincham) and “Heave Hove” (Tina Morgan, Southampton). This time last week, Angela Rayner had no idea her political career would be torpedoed.

As Deputy Prime Minister, she was the embodiment of working-class aspiration, and a key link with trade unions. Her defenders claim the attacks are misogyny, snobbism, a witch hunt against a working-class woman who dared to better herself, who is outspoken and stands up for her beliefs.

Certainly, some critics are guilty of cynicism and hypocrisy. Nigel Farage, for instance, uses a private company to pay less tax on the £400,000 he received from GB News in the past year. So he paid only 25 per cent corporate tax on profits, rather than 40 per cent income tax. W

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