Angela Rayner ‘doesn’t have a particularly strong view either way’ on Brexit

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epa10211501 Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner winks during her closing speech at the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool, Britain, 28 September 2022. The four-day conference runs through 28 September. EPA/ADAM VAUGHAN

LABOUR’S Angela Rayner says she “doesn’t have a particularly strong view either way” on Brexit.

Her party flip-flopped between remaining in the EU, a second referendum and leaving the bloc.

Angela Rayner says she ‘doesn’t have a particularly strong view either way’ on Brexit

The deputy party leader also said Labour needed to build back trust with voters who turned away from them.

She told the FT: “We’ve changed.

“People are ­willing to listen.

“But the idea that people are running out of their doors saying, ‘yay, Labour’ is not where they are.

“They don’t want us to get ahead of ourselves.”

Ms Rayner, 42, a mum of three, who became a gran at 37 said she doesn’t “fit into a box” despite being called a left-wing firebrand.

She said: “I have strong views on things like security, which pitches me to the right of the party.

“But I have very strong views on things like the economy.”