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Coffee House Shots: why Angela Rayner is so iconic

Coffee House Shots: why Angela Rayner is so iconic

Update: 2025-08-30
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The Daily Telegraph have run a story this week that Angela Rayner may have dodged stamp duty on her second home. But beyond the story, its the photos of the Deputy Prime Minister on the beach at Hove – drinking and vaping – that went viral. Christian Calgie, senior political correspondent for the Daily Express, joins James Heale to unpack the story and the wider questions it raises for British politics, but also to discuss Rayner herself. Could 'teflon Ang' turn around the Labour Party's fortunes? And why do so many people – including many Tories – like her so much?


Produced by Megan McElroy and Patrick Gibbons.




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Coffee House Shots: why Angela Rayner is so iconic

Coffee House Shots: why Angela Rayner is so iconic