Angela Rayner shown public reaction to Labour donations row in awkward moment on live TV

Angela Rayner shown public reaction to Labour donations row on live TVSource: BBC

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00:00That says if you get donations that has to be declared and the rules have to apply to everybody

00:06And I think that is correct so that people can see where you've had donations and where that

00:12Potential influences so that people can see the transparency, but you may have been

00:16Transparent about it and actually some of your donations that were turned out to be for clothes were listed as being generic

00:22So they weren't completely out there in the public domain, but you say you get people are frustrated

00:27I want to let you know how angry some of our viewers have been and have been over this last week Wendy emailed us saying it's

00:34Extraordinary behavior to accept clothing donations when the government feels justified to remove winter payments to pensioners

00:41Eileen said it's morally indefensible for politicians to be doing this Peter called you the goody party and

00:47Clive who was a Labour Party member

00:50Said I find it deeply disappointing that Labour seems no different from the Tories when it comes to freebies

00:57Are we expected to believe that the donors get nothing in?

01:01Return Lord Ali gave you individually more than 20,000 pounds

01:05What did you promise or give him in return?

01:07I promised nothing and gave him nothing in return

01:11What the donors and that have helped me in the past have done is seen someone that's come from a very working-class

01:17Background and as you said before I say how it is and I've always tried to fight for people and since having

01:24Honor and privilege of being the deputy prime minister and the Secretary of State in housing

01:28I've got a significant number of bills in the King's Speech because I want to improve people's housing

01:33I want to get on with the job of supporting people and we're

01:38Feature of our politics at the moment is for me to stand as the deputy leader

01:43And you have seen the leadership contest at the moment in the Conservative Party

01:47They will be getting donations to enable them to continue that work. That is a feature at the moment of our politics

01:53That's why transparency is really important

01:56But Lord Ali got a Downing Street pass now that gave him incredibly privileged access

02:02I think a lot of people would imagine that's the kind of thing you would have been

02:05Absolutely kicking off about if you had still been up who signed off Lord Ali getting a pass

02:09Well, I don't know and I didn't see Lord Ali in that period. So I don't know about that

02:14I didn't see him in Parliament. I didn't see him in number 10

02:16I've been getting on with the job and I don't know about who gave him a pass or not

02:20But it certainly wasn't because of any donations that he'd given to me