Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has kicked off the party’s conference in Brighton with a savage attack on Boris Johnson’s Government.

Amid fuel shortages and an energy crisis, Ms Rayner tried to turn the heat back onto the Conservatives after the build up to the event was dogged by squabbles about internal party elections.

Ms Rayner slammed what she called ‘Tory sleaze’ and tried to make the case for how Labour would do things differently.

She pledged the party will do more for worker’s rights by introducing a ‘new deal’ for working people within 100 days of the party winning an election.

The deputy leader said politics has been ‘polluted’ and ‘corrupted’ by the current administration.

She told delegates: ‘What a contrast to a government that is taking £1,400 out of the pockets of a nurse while over £2 billion of taxpayers’ money has been dished out to Tory donors and mates of ministers.

‘There’s only one rule with this Cabinet and that is that there’s one rule for them and one rule for all of us.’

Ms Rayner accused ministers of using the ‘public purse as a personal cashpoint’ before adding: ‘We’ll stop the dodgy deals handing public money to ministers’ mates. It’s bad news for my pub landlord, but good news for the public.

‘And let me tell you this – as your minister for procurement, I won’t sign off a single penny that goes to a company that exploits its workers or doesn’t pay its taxes.

‘We will stamp out the Tory sleaze that has polluted our politics and corrupted our democracy. The racket is over. Their time is up.’

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