Rayner Says Labour ‘Running Out of Time’ in Starmer Critique

Angela Rayner, the former deputy prime minister who bookmakers rate the favorite to succeed Keir Starmer as Labour leader, said the UK’s governing party is “running out of time” to deliver change, in her most public criticism yet of the premier’s leadership.

Rayner told a gathering of Labour activists on Tuesday that the party she helped lead until September had come to be seen as representing “the establishment, not working people.” She specifically criticized the government’s plan to double to 10 years the time that some low-earning migrants need to qualify for residency as a “breach of trust” and “un-British.”