Rayner says ‘pragmatism, not ideology’ key to Labour selections
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Labour authorities is not going to nationalise industries that can price a “load of money” in line with the occasion’s deputy chief Angela Rayner.
Talking to The Observer, she stated they must be pragmatic when making choices over radical insurance policies similar to renationalising the railways.
She stated: “I’m not for nationalising something that is going to cost us a load of money that we haven’t got when we’ve got kids starving and in poverty.
“Politics is about choices. With the rail companies, we have said that once their contracts are up we’d bring them back into public ownership and that’s a way of doing it.
“It’s pragmatism, not ideology, it’s about asking: will it improve people’s lives?”.
She continued: “If you are not getting value for money and (public services) are not delivering then we need a mechanism where local authorities are able to bring those services back in-house, to make the decisions, to improve the services locally and make them more accountable to local people.”
Asked about chief Sir Keir Starmer’s remedy of figures on the left of the occasion, together with his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, she stated Labour wants to stay a broad church.
“It has to be because it’s not just about the party, it’s about voters,” she stated, disregarding questions on turning into Labour’s first feminine prime minister.
“My ambition is to get into government and to deliver on the New Deal for Working People and to have a legacy, so that I can say to my constituents and my grandchildren ‘we changed that’ and, as a result, had an impact on people’s lives.”
Most of the trolling is misogynistic – calling me a bitch and issues like that
The Ashton-under-Lyme MP has confronted appreciable assaults on social media and acquired dying threats which have seen panic buttons put in in her home and her teenage sons receiving safety escorts.
“Most of the trolling is misogynistic – calling me a bitch and things like that,” she stated. “Or saying I’m thick because I haven’t been to university and can’t speak properly.
“Well, I’m not thick, obviously, otherwise I wouldn’t have got where I am today. And I speak like people do where I grew up and, guess what, being a woman does not make you inferior to a man.”
She stated many Conservative members are “quite scared of me… because they don’t often meet people like me” however says she will get on with colleagues from all sides.
“We’re all parliamentarians and it’s about respecting the fact that we are all here to represent our constituents,” she stated. “We may have a difference of opinion, and that’s fine, but we generally rub along OK.
“It’s the nasty, anonymous briefings to the press that give the idea that parliamentarians are a bunch of horrible, back-stabbing individuals, but I don’t recognise that on a day-to-day basis.”