Labour deputy says comments are ‘mortifying and hurtful’, as Mail on Sunday rebuffs Speaker’s request to meet
Angela Rayner has hit out at claims that she viewed “sexist slurs” made against her as a joke, amid a row between the Commons Speaker and the, whose editor rebuffed an invitation to discuss an article about the deputy Labour leader.
On comedian Matt Forde’s The Political Party, Rayner said she was “mortified” by an internet meme comparing her actions to the scene in Basic Instinct where Stone’s character crosses and uncrosses her legs in front of detectives while not wearing underwear. “The Mail implies today that I somehow enjoy being subjected to sexist slurs. I don’t. They are mortifying and deeply hurtful. ‘She loves it really’ is a typical excuse so many women are familiar with. But it can’t be women’s responsibility to call it out every time. I don’t need anyone to explain sexism to me – I experience it every day.
Dillon said he and his political editor, Glen Owen, would not be attending as journalists should “not take instruction from officials of theThe Conservative MP Caroline Nokes, the chair of the women and equalities committee, wrote to Hoyle asking him to consider revoking the Commons pass of the article’s author.
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