When quizzed on shoot to kill in 2015, erstwhile Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn- whose frontbench Rayner served- on said: “I’m not happy with a shoot-to-kill policy in general”, arguing that it could be ...
not Mr Corbyn. The loss of the Hartlepool by-election in May 2021 came as a blow to the Labour leader. In its aftermath, he sacked the party chairman, Angela Rayner, triggering a stand-off.