The day after Sir Keir Starmer said he wanted Angela Rayner back in the cabinet, she showed Labour MPs what they've been missing.

The former deputy prime minister delighted Labour backbenchers with a powerful Commons speech defending her workers' rights legislation on Monday evening.

With the House of Lords locked in a battle of parliamentary "ping pong" with MPs, she told ministers: "Now is not the time to blink or buckle."

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Her very public intervention came amid claims that her next move has the Labour Party on tenterhooks and that she's the favourite to succeed Sir Keir if she wants the job.

And her speech, delivered from notes and clearly meticulously prepared, appeared to send a message to Labour MPs: I'm here to make a comeback.

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