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>> Quite different. Rayner's comments were about the Conservative Front Bench not the party's supporters.
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>> An appropriate analogy would be comments by senior Tories about people like Dianne Abbott or
>> Jeremy Corbyn.
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Actually pretty similar because it was only after the event she tried to frame it as referring to the front bench, when it became apparent that what was meant as rabble rousing for a group of labour activists had reached rather wider audience. However, that form of damage limitation is a technique used by all politicians at some point, when they realise they’ve put their foot in it!
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