The host of a popular political podcast posed an intriguing question last week: 'Where is the lesser-spotted Angela Rayner?'
Spending time with her neglected constituents? Plotting a comeback? Or making the best of last week's sunshine with a trip to the Sussex seaside? All of them, to an extent, were true.
After being spotted in her Manchester constituency last weekend, she swerved the Labour Party conference in Liverpool and headed straight for the south coast.
Here, as The Mail on Sunday can reveal, she has been keeping her head down at her luxury flat in Hove – the scene of the 'crime', so to speak, as it was the purchase of this seaside property that led to her downfall and self-imposed purdah over unpaid stamp duty.
Ms Rayner was joined by her boyfriend, former Labour MP-turned-lobbyist Sam Tarry, who attended the annual jamboree before travelling to join her. Although absent from Liverpool for obvious reasons, Angela's spirit (her ghost, critics would say) loomed large over the main hall.
