{"id":19228,"date":"2025-04-14T12:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19228\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T12:54:15","slug":"angela-rayner-urged-to-hand-back-10000-she-received-from-union-at-centre-of-birmingham-bin-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/19228\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Rayner urged to hand back \u00a310,000 she received from union at centre of Birmingham bin strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DEPUTY PM Angela Rayner is facing pressure to hand back \u00a310,000 she received from the trade union at the centre of the Birmingham bin strike.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Rayner is in charge of trying to end the \u00addispute. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Angela Rayner exiting a car, holding a red folder.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Getty\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/deputy-prime-minister-secretary-state-982657835_01aa38.jpg\" data-caption=\"Angela Rayner has been urged to hand back the \u00a310,000 she received from the union at the centre of Birmingham bin strikes\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/deputy-prime-minister-secretary-state-982657835_01aa38.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Angela Rayner has been urged to hand back the \u00a310,000 she received from the union at the centre of Birmingham bin strikesCredit: Getty<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Pile of garbage bags on a street during a bin workers' strike.\" height=\"631\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Reuters\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rubbish-bags-piled-street-strike-986475400_e87d0f.jpg\" data-caption=\"Chaos is unfolding on the streets of Birmingham due to the ongoing bin strikes\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rubbish-bags-piled-street-strike-986475400_e87d0f.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2<\/p>\n<p>Chaos is unfolding on the streets of Birmingham due to the ongoing bin strikesCredit: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>But she accepted a \u00a310,000 donation from the Unite union last year to help bankroll her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/general-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general election<\/a> campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Conservative frontbencher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/kevin-hollinrake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kevin Hollinrake<\/a> has written to Labour demanding to know if Ms Rayner will now hand the money back.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cRats the size of cats are roaming the streets. Rubbish is piling up at an astonishing rate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just a local scandal. It\u2019s a national embarrassment \u2014 and a public health emergency.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city is being held hostage by Unite.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnite has donated tens of millions to Labour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/keir-starmer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Keir Starmer<\/a> became leader, Labour has received over \u00a330million from the unions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven more troubling, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/who\/angela-rayner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Angela Rayner<\/a>, \u00adSecretary of State responsible for resolving this strike, has received \u00a310,000 from Unite during the last general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat raises serious questions about potential conflicts of interest \u2014 and whether Labour ministers are putting union barons before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/birmingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Birmingham<\/a> \u00adresidents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms Rayner has urged the union to accept what she said was a \u201csignificantly improved\u201d pay offer from the council.<\/p>\n<p>Watch moment Birmingham binmen sprint for their lives after huge RAT falls out of rubbish and scurries around their feet<\/p>\n<p>She also said the strike was \u201ccausing misery and disruption to residents\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Labour said: \u201cAs the Deputy PM made clear, the council have put a significantly improved offer on the table and we urge Unite to suspend their action, accept the offer, and bring this situation to an end.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DEPUTY PM Angela Rayner is facing pressure to hand back \u00a310,000 she received from the trade union at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[9311,855,748,393,560,4884,528,935,7101,118,1890,16,15,7858],"class_list":{"0":"post-19228","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-angela-rayner","9":"tag-birmingham","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-exclusives","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-labour-party","15":"tag-section-newspolitics","16":"tag-strikes","17":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","18":"tag-the-sun-on-sunday","19":"tag-uk","20":"tag-united-kingdom","21":"tag-west-midlands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114336423495352508","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}