If the Labour Party’s annual conference was all staid speeches from Cabinet ministers setting out their priorities for the coming year, it wouldn’t attract quite so many people.
And for a select few, those parties will be soundtracked by Angela Rayner herself.
The housing secretary popped up at two separate Labour gatherings in Liverpool on Monday night to entertain the crowds from behind the DJ decks.
First, she appeared at the Tonight Josephine cocktail bar for Mainstream, the Labour group which helped put Andy Burnham on course to become prime minister.
Then she headed along the road to the Oktoberfest-themed Bierkeller to perform at the DJ and karaoke night organised by party news website LabourList.
At the latter, she stepped into the booth after fellow MP Dawn Butler who had been blasting out reggae favourites.
Butler was presumably still recovering from her famous annual Jamaica Party, which drew to a close around 3am on Monday morning.
Rayner’s playlists were described by someone on her team as ‘a nice blend of 80s synth, 90s Euro dances – and contemporary Ibiza bangers’.
The housing secretary is expected to deliver her conference speech on the main stage at 11.40am.
It’s not the first time she has tried her hand at DJing – in August 2024, less than two months after Labour won the general election, she was spotted at the Hï Ibiza club on the Balearic island.
The karaoke that followed Rayner’s Labourlist set did not draw many big names, though East Thanet MP Polly Billington did pick up the mic more than once.
What was on Angela Rayner’s playlists?
- Go – The Chemical Brothers
- Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat
- Don’t Leave Me This Way – Communards
- Set You Free – N-Trance
- Silence (feat. Sarah McLachlan) – Delerium
- Movin’ to the Sun – HUGEL, Imael Angel and Ultra Nate
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