Politics latest: Angela Rayner reveals Labour’s vision for workers’ rights; minister denies China spying allegations a ‘publicity stunt’

Rayner is telling the unions what they want to hear You wouldn’t hear Sir Keir Starmer greeted at the TUC as “one of us” and “Labour’s finest”, which is the way the union movement’s president Maria Exall introduces Angela Rayner. And Labour’s deputy leader soon has her audience applauding with a pledge that implementing the New Deal for Working People blueprint within 100 days is a “cast-iron commitment”. There’s more applause when she pledges to scrap the Conservatives’ anti-strike laws within 100 days too, though when she says Labour will work “hand in hand” with trade unions she adds... “and…