How Angela Rayner could go from Labour’s trump card to their millstone

One is a wealthy, Oxford-educated lawyer from North London, the other is a scrappy, working-class Northerner who quickly gets into trouble for speaking his mind.

We could be talking about Tony Blair and John Prescott here, but the description fits just as well with the current Labor leadership of Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner.

And in a week when Ms. Rayner is under more scrutiny than ever before over the controversy over a house sale, the same questions are being asked about her as they were ever asked about Prescott: Is she an invaluable asset to the party or ...