REVEALED: Conservative Party inquiry finds the source of the Angela Rayner ‘Basic Instinct’ story that triggered a storm at Westminster was… Angela Rayner

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  2. > According to one of the MPs, she told them that during PMQs she liked ‘to do my Sharon Stone trick. I cross and uncross my legs and give him a flash of my ginger g******’.

    Yes Angela Rayner definitely said that to a Tory MP that seems like a thing that happened

  3. These are what the Daily Mail and it’s owners like to call ‘alternative facts’.

    The non-brainwashed among us just call it what it is, utter fucking bullshit not worthy of the dead trees it’s printed on.

  6. If these Tory MP’s are confident in their convictions, then stop being anonymous,and gossiping to the press. Use your parliamentary privilege, wheel that sword of justice, show integrity and uphold the values of honesty and integrity like soooo many of you have done before and call her out.

    ….. I’ll just wait, probably till the universe implodes.

  7. This is a complete bullshit article, written to make it look like Rayner is to blame here when she is not, and Owen is more than well aware of that.

    From Owen’s article last week:

    >All is fair in love, war and Commons duels with Boris Johnson, if the claims of Tory MPs are to be believed.
    >
    >Conservatives have claimed that Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner likes to put Mr Johnson ‘off his stride’ in the chamber by crossing and uncrossing her legs when they clash at Prime Minister’s Questions

    […]

    >Tory MPs have mischievously suggested that Ms Rayner likes to distract the PM when he is at the dispatch box by deploying a fully-clothed Parliamentary equivalent of Sharon Stone’s infamous scene in the 1992 film Basic Instinct.
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    >It is suggested that Ms Rayner also employs the tactic when sitting next to Sir Keir when he faces Mr Johnson at PMQs.
    >
    >One MP said: ‘She knows she can’t compete with Boris’s Oxford Union debating training, but she has other skills which he lacks.

    From his own fingertips he spells out this is Tories saying the shit that has been aid about Rayner.

    And in today’ article:

    >After the row broke out last week, the Daily Mail revealed the contents of a podcast recorded in January in which Ms Rayner volunteered the fact that her appearance at PMQs that month had drawn comparisons with Miss Stone, and that it had sparked an internet meme of her crossing and uncrossing her legs.
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    >**The interview came 18 days after the Daily Mail’s Amanda Platell had likened Ms Rayner to Miss Stone in her column – without receiving a complaint.**

    So eighteen days after Platell’s Daily Mail column on 7 January 2022:

    >[Amanda Platell: ***Angela won it in a flash***](https://i.postimg.cc/PJyCXrbQ/Screenshot-2022-05-01-at-14-01-39-PLATELL-S-PEOPLE-Meghan-s-lawyer-has-insulted-all-of-us-career-wom.png)
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    >No wonder Boris Johnson got in a fluster at this week’s Prime Minister’s Questions when confronted by Angela Rayner (right), standing in for serial Covid patient Sir Keir Starmer.
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    >Wearing a chic dress that showed off her thighs, the Labour deputy leader was channelling her inner Sharon Stone.
    >
    >Boris has always had a tendresse for women with basic instincts.

    Rayner defends herself:

    >[*Transcript from the Angela Rayner interview in January on Matt Forde’s Political Party podcast*](https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/575dc409-7007-4ae4-b959-91c34711a433.html):
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    >Angela Rayner: “Everytime I do PMQ’s somebody has an opinion on what I wear. Did you see the meme about Sharon Stone like I was doing it at PMQs?
    >
    >“I was mortified. They did this whole meme about me doing, you know, the whole … I was like, when did I do that?”
    >
    >Matt Forde: “I hadn’t seen that at all.”
    >
    >Angela Rayner: “Did you not see the Fatal Attraction thing where they did the whole g— thing?
    >
    >“I wasn’t aware I did it but apparently there was this whole meme about how my dress was a bit revealing but I didn’t think it was. It was a perfectly suitable Karen Millen… in the sale by the way.
    >
    >Matt Forde: “What was the theory, that you were doing it to distract Boris?”
    >
    >Angela Rayner: “Doesn’t take much, does it? I don’t need to do that.”
    >
    >Matt Forde: “It’s quite interesting watching you go up against him and I know you are ideologically opposed and I am sure you have very strong opinions on what he’s been getting up to.
    >
    >”Oddly though, in Parliament, these rivalries get thrown together where there is clearly a bit of mutual respect. I think he has a level of respect for you. He seems to enjoy it when you are at the despatch box.”
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    >Angela Rayner: “Yeah I think he’s got a bit of a romance going on there somehow hasn’t he? You know what I think it is, because Michael Gove kind of did this as well, I think they try and if you can’t beat them, smooch them. I think there is a bit of that going on.”

    Owen is a capable journalist, and it is a bigger story that the Tories are not backing down here but doubling and tripling down on their stupidity, so you have to ask what the fuck does he think he is doing.

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    edit: bsdly gendered typo

  9. Daily mail: “Tory MP says this”

    this sub: “omgggg must be true!!!”

    Daily mail: “Tory MPs said this”

    this sub: “huhh duh misinformation, alternative facts, lies!!!”

    Either believe it all, or none of it. Can’t pick and choose.

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