Angela Rayner: ‘I begged Mail on Sunday not to publish Basic Instinct story’
by Jessica Elgot Chief political correspondent from on (#5YJ8M)
Labour deputy says article was steeped in classism' that puts women off achieving in their careers
Angela Rayner has revealed she begged the Mail on Sunday not to run a story claiming a Conservative MP compared her to the character in Basic Instinct, saying the classist" comments in the piece were disparaging about working-class people.
Labour's deputy leader said she had been horrified at the story, which she had had to explain to her teenage sons.
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