The US may not share Britain’s obsession with class – but it hates women every bit as much | Arwa Mahdawi

Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren have an unpleasant amount in common with Angela Rayner. Female politicians are routinely belittled on both sides of the Atlantic

You have to be careful about letting women into politics, you really do. You give them a few rights and then they start clamouring for more. Worse still, they start using their womanly wiles to get their way, crossing their legs in parliament and distracting great Oxbridge-educated statesmen from their trains of thought.

I speak, of course, of Angela Rayner. Labour's deputy leader was accused by the Mail on Sunday (MoS) last week of a Basic Instinct ploy to distract Boris" by ... moving her legs at work.