Rayner denies Labour is watering down commitment to strengthen workers' rights
BACKTRACK? Angela Rayner has fiercely denied Labour is scaling back on Labour pledges to workers
by Matt Trinder
LABOUR’S increasingly right-wing central office is not watering down the party’s commitment to strengthen workers’ rights, deputy leader Angela Rayner claimed yesterday.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP was responding to reports in the Financial Times (FT) newspaper that leader Sir Keir Starmer has scaled back Labour pledges to tackle the abuse of gig economy workers in an attempt to woo corporate backers.
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