23-07-2025
Top Tory James Cleverly slams ‘hypocrite' Angela Rayner for warning about Britain's social breakdown
TOP Tory James Cleverly has blasted Angela Rayner as a hypocrite for warning about Britain's social breakdown - after she took the knee for Black Lives Matter.
The ex-Home Secretary said her claim immigration and online culture are fuelling unrest 'rings a bit hollow' given Labour's history of 'jumping on every bandwagon'.
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The newly-appointment Shadow Housing Secretary told Sky News: 'I think she makes a very good point, and I think she has echoed things that Conservatives have said for a while.
'I think it rings a bit hollow when she was one of the people that took the knee during the BLM protest.
'She, the Labour Party, the Prime Minister, have jumped on every bandwagon that's come along, and they have spent so much time seeming to be on the side of the people who don't play by the rules, who jump the queue, who abuse the system.
'And now that they're in government, she is saying, 'Oh, well, I think you know, society is fracturing', seemingly blind to the role the Labour Party have played in driving wedges between communities.'
The Deputy PM told Cabinet this week that immigration, economic insecurity and time spent online were having a 'profound impact on society' and said ministers must face up to people's 'real concerns'.
She was presenting the findings of her year-long study, commissioned in the wake of last year's riots.
Downing Street said the unreleased study will form the backbone of the Plan for Neighbourhoods, which promises to invest £1.5 billion in 75 of the 'most deprived' areas across the UK over the next decade.
