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<p>Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has now declared £3,550 worth of clothes donated by Waheed Alli earlier this year</p>
John Rentoul

Labour is stretching credulity – but soon, the elastic will go ‘ping!’

The day after a ‘painful’ Budget for the British people, Angela Rayner’s admission that she, too, accepted £3,550 worth of free clothes draws attention to the troubling ease with which this government can say one thing when really it means something else, says John Rentoul

<p>I am stumped to a halt in the company of people / Only ever seen on Zoom</p>
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