Show key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this featureFrom 5d agoAngela Rayner calls blocking Andy Burnham's return to parliament a mistakeAngela Rayner has just released a statement on the fallout from Thursday’s elections. The most significant passage is one in which she calls the decision to block Andy Burnham from parliament a mistake and says Keir Starmer ‘must now meet the moment’. Here is the key extract:
double quotation markThis is bigger than personalities, but it is time to acknowledge that blocking Andy Burnham was a mistake. We must show we understand the scale of change the moment calls for - that means bringing our best players into Parliament - and embracing the type of agenda that has been successful at a local level, rather than reaching back to an agenda and politics that has failed people.
These are the fights we need to have, and the change in direction we need to see. Policy tweaks will not fix the fundamental challenges facing our country. This government needs, at pace, to put measures in place that make people’s lives tangibly better, while fixing the foundations of a system rigged against them.
The Prime Minister must now meet the moment and set out the change our country needs.
