Angela Rayner is to launch a battle against Sir Keir Starmer after the Governent watered-down her workers’ rights laws. The former Deputy Prime Minister championed Labour’s Employment Rights Bill before she was forced to resign from the Cabinet. But last week the Government said it would scrap a key part of the Bill, giving workers protection against unfair dismissal from their first day in the job. Instead, this protection will come into force after six months.

Ministers said the climbdown was essential in order to prevent the entire Bill being blocked in the House of Lords, but angry unions and left-wing MPs condemned the u-turn. And now, Ms Rayner is to take on the Government in her first major intervention since resigning in September. She will push for part of the workers’ right

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