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SNP says Angela Rayner has ‘brassneck’ for visiting Scotland after bankers' bonus u-turn
Deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner addresses the Labour Party Women's Conference 2023 in Liverpool, October 7, 2023

ANGELA Rayner has a “brass neck” for visiting Scotland just days after her party’s bankers’ bonus U-turn, the SNP said today.

Labour’s deputy leader was challenged to explain why her party ruled out reinstating the ban scrapped last year by the Tories.

SNP social justice spokesman David Linden said: “Ms Rayner really does have a brass neck arriving in a constituency where the callous two-child cap impacts 1,600 children just days after U-turning on Labour's bankers’ bonus policy.

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