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Sir Keir Starmer sacks deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner after “bitterly disappointing” election defeat.

Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner has been sacked as chair and national campaign co-ordinator following the party’s dire election results.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer moved quickly to dispense with Ms Rayner as the party reeled from a series of national and local election defeats.

It’s believed he sacked her personally.

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Hours earlier he said he’d take “full responsibility” for the “bitterly disappointing” showings.

John McDonnell, former shadow chancellor, said the decision to remove Ms Rayner was a “cowardly avoidance of responsibility”.

The senior party figure tweeted:

“Keir Starmer said yesterday that he took full responsibility for the election result in Hartlepool and other losses.

“Instead, today he’s scapegoating everyone apart from himself.

“This isn’t leadership, it’s a cowardly avoidance of responsibility.”

Ms Rayner’s dismissal is likely to spell trouble as civil war breaks out within Labour.

A Labour source told Sky News:

“Keir said he was taking full responsibility for the result of the elections – and he said we need to change.

“That means change how we run our campaigns in the future.

“Angela will continue to play a senior role in Keir’s team.”

Gaya Sriskanthan, Momentum co-chair, said:

“It is his failed strategy that has brought us to this point, and he said he would take responsibility.

“Yet again he has gone back on his word.”

 

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