Rayner: There Was No Safari

The DPM has just appeared on Tom Swarbrick’s show on LBC. Amid claiming that Matthew Pennycook wasn’t actually attacking Reeves and claiming the Labour government had achieved a “sweet spot” on tax (40% of GDP), Rayner defended her vanity trip to Ethiopia and Ghana:

“There was no personal safari holiday… I went to Ethiopia, I met the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, I did diplomatic conversations.