Rayner mocks Badenoch as doing ‘side deals with Daleks’ over David Tennant row

Deputy Prime Minister Ms Rayner said adjacent week’s Conservative Party league volition impact “10-minute auditions for wannabe leaders, beating each different to antithetic shades of blue” pursuing their wide predetermination defeat.

Ms Rayner said “no-one is watching” the Tories, earlier questioning whether this was wherefore Ms Badenoch, the shadiness lodging secretary, utilized her enactment run motorboat to accidental she is idiosyncratic “who’s not acrophobic of Doctor Who”.

In June, erstwhile Doctor Who histrion David Tennant utilized an acceptance code astatine the British LGBT Awards to accidental of the then-equalities minister: “Until we aftermath up and Kemi Badenoch doesn’t beryllium immoderate much – I don’t privation sick of her, I conscionable privation her to unopen up – whilst we bash unrecorded successful this world, I americium honoured to person this.”

Ms Badenoch, who has faced disapproval implicit her attack to trans rights, replied by saying she was “never going to unopen up” astir the “divisive docket of diverseness politics”.

Labour’s Ms Rayner, speaking astatine the Labour Party league successful Liverpool connected Sunday, said: “The Tories failed Britain and they tried to screen it up.

“A crater successful the bosom of Britain’s economy. A puncture successful the pouch of each moving family. And a £22 cardinal achromatic hole.

“And not truthful overmuch arsenic an apology, fto unsocial an acceptance, from the Tories.

“Instead, adjacent week they volition stitchery successful the wreckage of their defeat. Reduced to 10-minute auditions for wannabe leaders, beating each different to antithetic shades of blue. On a amusement that no-one is watching.

“Perhaps that’s wherefore Kemi launched her enactment run with an onslaught connected Doctor Who.”

In a motion to the force of Doctor Who, Ms Rayner said: “It was atrocious capable erstwhile they wanted to woody with (Reform UK person Nigel) Farage = present she’s doing broadside deals with the Daleks.

“At slightest aft 3 months arsenic shadiness lodging secretary, she yet expressed interest astir a tenant. It’s conscionable a pity it was David Tennant.

“It’s casual to hide they had 5 enactment candidates. Not precisely the celebrated five.

“They person near america to wide up their mess, and I’m not conscionable talking astir the wallpaper successful Number 10.

“The Tories person near america facing pugnacious choices. And adjacent tougher ones look families crossed Britain, struggling to marque ends meet.”

Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden said Labour has an “ambition to pb the state done this satellite of alteration and the tremendous possibilities that it brings”.

He said: “That’s the quality betwixt different 5 years of opposition.

“Five years of thing but clicks and likes and lamenting what the Government is doing, and 5 years successful power.

“Five years successful which we tin bash and not conscionable talk.

“And erstwhile we look contiguous astatine the Tory enactment election, wherever is their hunger for change? Where is their humility to larn from their defeat? Plenty of contenders, but not a alteration campaigner among them.

“Never again should we fto the Tories resistance our state down oregon clasp our radical back.

“Being honorable astir what the Tories near america with, astir the harm they did to our country, that’s not gloom – it’s serious, and it’s clip we got superior astir the governance and the aboriginal of the country.”