{"id":584703,"date":"2026-05-15T02:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584703\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T02:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T02:37:09","slug":"peston-starmers-fate-will-be-decided-by-rayner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/584703\/","title":{"rendered":"Peston: Starmer\u2019s fate will be decided by Rayner\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">The prime minister\u2019s survival is probably now in the hands of his former deputy, Angela Rayner. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\"><a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" data-testid=\"next-link-anchor\" href=\"https:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/2026-05-14\/will-rayner-take-the-chance-to-seize-labour-leadership-shes-not-ruling-it-out\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Now that she has been absolved of wrongdoing by HMRC<\/a>, his get-out-of-jail is to offer her the health job vacated by Streeting or perhaps any job she wants. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">She is strong enough to dictate terms because she represents a large part of the parliamentary Labour Party that wants him out. So if she throws him a lifeline, they may too. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">I am imagining the conversation in which Rayner says to the PM that she fancies being Chancellor of the Exchequer and she is sure Rachel Reeves would excel as health secretary. <\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">This is currently all the stuff of fiction, except that whether Rayner agrees to take any job from Starmer is potentially life or death for him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">Subscribe free to<a class=\"qNUzV q7LZa\" href=\"https:\/\/itvnews.substack.com\/\" data-testid=\"fecp-link-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> our weekly newsletter <\/a>for exclusive and original coverage from ITV News. Direct to your inbox every Friday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"A8Lwr BVYCX\">From Westminster to Washington DC &#8211; our political experts are across all the latest key talking points. Listen to the latest episode below&#8230;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The prime minister\u2019s survival is probably now in the hands of his former deputy, Angela Rayner. Now that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-584703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}