Angela Rayner and Sir Keir Starmer (Image: PA Archive/PA Images)

Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed that the "hugely talented" Angela Rayner will be reinstated to his Cabinet. Ms Rayner stepped down from her roles as deputy prime minister, housing secretary and deputy Labour leader in September following an independent ethics investigation which found she had violated the ministerial code due to underpayment of stamp duty on a coastal flat.

In an interview with The Observer, the Prime Minister expressed his longing for Ms Rayner's presence and suggested that misogyny had contributed to the heightened criticism faced by her and Chancellor Rachel Reeves in recent times. After lauding Ms Rayner as "the best social mobility story this country has ever seen."

Sir Keir was questioned abou

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