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Labour’s Shadow Deputy Leader made the comments as she outlined her party’s plan for ‘a new standards watchdog with tougher rules and stronger enforcement’
Angela Rayner has warned Boris Johnson wasn’t “just one bad apple” as she pledged to root out sleaze under Labour.
The Shadow Deputy Leader said the “good chaps” theory has been tested to the point of destruction in a speech about Tory sleaze.
She outlined her party’s plan for “a new standards watchdog with tougher rules and stronger enforcement”, in a speech to the Institute for Government think tank.
“We will clean up politics, so that by the end of our first term people don’t just feel better off, they can see that politics is working for them, not for Westminster,” she pledged.