'We Need Her Back': Wes Streeting Calls For Angela Rayner To Return To Government

<div><img src="https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/68dbbccd180000b6965d0a20.jpeg?ops=scalefit_630_noupscale" alt="Angela Rayner resigned earlier this month." data-caption="Angela Rayner resigned earlier this month." data-credit-link-back="" data-credit="via Associated Press" />Angela Rayner resigned earlier this month.</div><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/wes-streeting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Wes Streeting </a>has called for <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/angela-rayner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Angela Rayner </a>to return to government, telling Labour’s annual conference: “We need her back.”</p><p>The health secretary paid tribute to the former deputy prime minister during a barnstorming speech in which he also savaged <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/nigel-farage/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nigel Farage</a>.</p><p>Rayner r<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/angela-rayner-quits-cabinet-after-report-into-stamp-duty-row_uk_68b99f1ee4b0e20f601ad86f" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">esigned from the cabinet earlier month </a>after she was found to have broken the ministerial code by not paying enough stamp duty when she bought a flat near Brighton.</p><p>She also stood down as Labour’s deputy leader, and has not been seen at this week’s gathering in Liverpool.</p><p>But in his keynote speech to the conference, Streeting drew loud applause by praising the contribution she had made to Labour’s first 14 months in power.</p><p>Addressing the £500 million investment for the first ever “fair pay agreem