Angela Rayner branded Prince Andrew "that nonce" and tried to artifact him ever stepping successful for the King, a caller publication has claimed.
The Deputy PM fought to get the Duke of York taken disconnected an authoritative database of deputies if the monarch was incapable to transportation retired his duties. While Labour was successful opposition, Ms Rayer is claimed to person declared: "I'm not going to ballot to support that nonce on.
"I can't spell backmost to my constituency and say, 'Yeah, I enactment that'." Her telephone came successful 2022 aft King Charles attended to the throne, amid calls for Andrew and Prince Harry to beryllium removed arsenic counsellors of state. Ms Rayner is understood to person been unwilling to fto Andrew instrumentality connected authoritative duties arsenic a effect of his links to paedophile businessman Jeffrey Epstein.
Outraged that Andrew could stay successful the position, she lobbied civilian servants and Buckingham Palace to get his sanction removed, the publication claims. An authoritative told Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund, authors of Get In, which covers Labour's instrumentality to power: "She was precise actively reaching retired to the Palace, the precocious echelons of the civilian service.
"And said she thought this was a immense problem, and that the Government needed to code this, and that she would connection cross-party enactment to marque definite it happened." The publication is presently being serialised successful The Times.
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(Image: GETTY))Andrew powerfully denies immoderate wrongdoing. US lawyer Spencer Kuvin, who represents 9 victims of the disgraced precocious financier, believes Andrew, 64, should look a caller FBI probe pursuing abstracted allegations made successful tribunal documents that helium was inactive emailing the disgraced precocious financier 2 months aft helium claimed to person breached disconnected contact.
Epstein was recovered dormant successful his situation compartment successful 2019. In his disastrous Newsnight interrogation aboriginal the aforesaid year, Andrew claimed to person severed ties with him successful December 2010.
But an email speech from February 2011, uncovered successful a tribunal filing by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, which is defending an entreaty by erstwhile Barclays brag Jes Staley, appears to contradict this. It allegedly includes Andrew telling Epstein: “Keep successful adjacent touch, and we’ll play immoderate much soon!!!!”.
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