Angela Rayner has been seen sat down in PMQs wearing two poppies – and it’s prompting one common question.
Angela Rayner in the House of Commons wearing two poppies (Image: PA )
Eagle-eyed viewers anticipating a tax rising budget have spotted the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner donning not one, but two poppies.
The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government emerged from a vehicle in Downing Street wearing what appeared to be the paper form of the Remembrance symbol alongside a smaller pin badge of the flower.
Wearing a green jacket and clutching a binder the Cabinet Minister beamed for the cameras as she made her way to work today.
However, the decision to sport not one but two poppies has baffled some observers, with one person writing on the social media platform X: “See Rayner has TWO Poppies on. What is she trying to prove?”
Another also questioned the politicians choice of footwear, commenting: “Angela Rayner wearing two poppies and bother boots at PMQs isn’t exactly a sight for sore eyes.”
Angela Rayner arrives at 10 Downing Street ahead of the highly-anticipated Autumn Budget (Image: Getty)
Bother, or bovver, boots is a slang term used describe boot-like footwear associated with thuggish behaviour and hooliganism in the 1970s and 80s.
Another person on X also mentioned Ms Rayner’s attire, adding: “Is Rayner showing the new communist uniform? Military boots in the house.”
Ms Rayner sat on Sir Keir Starmer‘s right side on the Labour Front benches with the Chancellor Rachel Reeves sitting to his left. The Prime Minister was sported a single Remembrance Poppy broach.
Angela Rayner in Downing Street wearing two poppies and boots (Image: PA )
Earlier this week Ms Rayner said a four-day working week for councils was “no threat to the economy” as she vowed to “work with” town halls.
The MP had suggested four-day weeks, which the previous government described as “part-time work for full-time pay”, could improve productivity in local government.
Conservative shadow local government secretary Kemi Badenoch described the arrangement as “unacceptable” at the House of Commons despatch box on Monday.
Ms Badenoch asked: “Does (Ms Rayner) agree that reducing the capacity of councils by 20% by allowing workers an additional paid day off every week, which is what a four-day week actually is, is unacceptable and does not provide good value for money to taxpayers or residents?”
Ms Rayner replied: “I’m really proud of our Employment Rights Bill, and I’m really proud to stand here as someone who says and advocates for flexible working.
“We don’t dictate to councils how they run their services. We work with councils and I think (Ms Badenoch) should be able to work out that flexible working is no threat to business, no threat to the economy, in fact, it would boost productivity.”
