Angela Rayner defends Labour’s decision to drop student tuition fees pledge

Mancunian Matters spoke to the Angela Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, while in attendance at the Tameside local election count.

The Deputy Leader of the Labour Party towed the cabinet line on the matter, and asserted that the party’s plans have had to adapt to a struggling economy following the Pandemic, the War in Ukraine and Liz Truss’s disastrous ‘mini-budget’.