GB News presenter Alex Armstrong clashed with Lord Foulkes over Angela Rayner’s delayed resignation after breaching the ministerial code
A frosty exchange took place between GB News presenter Alex Armstrong and a guest after Angela Rayner’s delayed resignation after breaching the ministerial code. Lord Foulkes, who is a Labour peer and former minister, entered a fiery conversation with Alex after arguing that Angela ‘resigned immediately’. But Alex quickly interrupted him and said: “No, it wasn’t immediately. It was a whole week before she resigned.” Lord Foulkes then shot back: “No, no, get it right, Alex! For once, you try and get it right. As soon as the adviser reported, she resigned immediately. Compared with Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, and Priti Patel, they all broke the code and stayed on as ministers! It’s far too rigid.”
It comes after Sir Keir Starmer‘s right-hand woman, Angela Rayner, admitted that she had not paid enough stamp duty on a house she bought in Hove, East Sussex, earlier this year.
Angela also stepped away as deputy leader of the Labour Party on Friday. Her departure sparked a major reshuffle of Keir Starmer‘s cabinet, with Rachel Reeves staying in her role as Chancellor.
In a letter to the Prime Minister announcing her resignation, Rayner admitted that the strain her three children have been put through by her remaining in post has “become unbearable”. She also “deeply” regrets her decision not to seek additional specialist tax advice.
She wrote: “I would like to take this opportunity to repeat that it was never my intention to do anything other than pay the right amount.”
Angela Rayner resigned from her position on Friday (Image: Getty)
“For a teenage mum from a council estate in Stockport to serve at the highest level of government has been the honour of my life.
“The challenges of government are nothing compared to the challenge of putting food on the table and getting a roof over our head when I brought up kids working as a home help.
“Every day I had in office, I worked to serve working class communities like the one that I grew up in, which are
too often overlooked by those in power.
“I am proud that in every decision I made, I did it for them. I would never have become deputy prime minister if not for the decisions taken by the last Labour government, giving me a council house to support me, Sure Start to help raise my kids, and the security of a minimum wage – and I can only hope that the changes I made in government will have the same impact for young girls growing up on council estates like I did.”
