One moment you’re at a meeting discussing cladding… the next you’re raving inside a DJ booth at a packed-out Ibiza club night.
Angela Rayner has been spotted busting her moves during a wild night out on the Spanish party island filmed by actress Denise van Outen at around 4am on Thursday.
In the footage, the Deputy Prime Minister – who has previously boasted of all-night rave sessions fuelled by vodka – is seen wearing a red dress as she dances along to a remix of Gotye’s hit song Somebody That I Used to Know.
It marked a remarkable turnaround from just hours before, with a photo shared on Ms Rayner’s X at 6.50pm on Wednesday showing her meeting officials in London to talk about unsafe cladding. She’s also seen wearing red – but a different outfit.
The 44-year-old appears to have quickly jetted out to the Med for the rave at Hi Ibiza, which sells tickets for 100 euros (£84), drinks packages of five beverages for 95 euros (£80), and bottles of water for £11.
The video shows Ms Rayner joyfully hugging the DJ, Fisher – with the Labour politician clearly refusing to let her spirits be sapped by her boss Keir Starmer’s doom-laden speech a day before warning of ‘painful’ times ahead.
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Ms Rayner appears to have jetted to Ibiza following a meeting on Wednesday with mayors, regulators and fire chiefs about unsafe cladding.
The footage of her dancing in the DJ booth seems to suggest it was the early hours of Thursday morning, with a clock showing it was past 4am.
Hi Ibiza describes itself as ‘the most technologically advanced club on the planet’ with ‘cutting-edge DJs and pioneering immersive experiences’.
The video shows Ms Rayner joyfully hugging the DJ, Fisher – who is currently on a regular Wednesday residency at Hi Ibiza.
Real name Paul Nicholas Fisher, the 37-year-old n began his music career after initially trying to become a professional surfer.
A fan of colourful bucket hats, the 37-year-old is friends with England footballer Declan Rice, who signed a shirt for him after a gig in London.
Fisher is also a proud father, and regularly posts photos of his baby daughter on Instagram.
The club, where David Guetta has previously played, hosts Fisher every Wednesday night as part of a regular residency.
The producer, real name Paul Nicholas Fisher, is from the Gold Coast in who began his music career after initially trying to become a professional surfer.
A fan of colourful bucket hats, the 37-year-old is friends with England footballer Declan Rice, who signed a shirt for him after a gig in London.
Ms Rayner is clearly also a fan, with the politician seen jumping up and down during his Gotye remix.
A self-confessed party animal, the Deputy MP has previously boasted of her 12-hour-plus ‘rave’ sessions while drinking vodka.
Speaking at an event at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival last year, Ms Rayner revealed how she had just returned from a holiday in Spain where she had partied from mid-afternoon to sunrise the next morning
The Labour frontbencher, who has been dubbed ‘Grangela’ at Westminster after she welcomed a grandchild at the age of 37, said: ‘The girls I was raving with are half my age, and I was like “I’m a grandma”.
‘I was proud of that. 4pm I started, and I got home at six o’clock in the morning when the sun was shining and I was like, ‘Yes, I can do it’.’
Asked if she did it ‘with or without chemical support’, she said she just had vodka.
‘You’ve got to go with the music, the vibes. You’ve got to be in the moment and it takes you,’ Ms Rayner added.
Speaking about her heavy drinking habits, she said that ‘I let my hair down at home’ by inviting friends round and making a ‘lethal’ cocktail called Venom.
The cocktail, she said, is made using a bottle of vodka, a bottle of Southern Comfort, ten bottles of Blue WKD and a litre of orange juice.
She said: ‘If you’re ever having a crowd of you at home get that out and everyone will have a good time.
‘I invited my two youngest kids’ headteacher from primary school and he had to take his wife home because she’d had some Venom.
Referring to a recent supermarket trip she had made, she said: ‘I was ashamed the other day because I got three bottles of wine and eight packs of Juul2 vapes and that was it, that’s all I had in my basket and I did actually think ‘I need to put some fruit in there’.’
She said her children call her ‘The Vape Dragon’ because she cannot give it up. She added: ‘Vaping is probably really bad for you and I will find out one day, but yeah I enjoy a good vape.’
Describing the difference between her and Sir Starmer Keir, she said that she is ‘more bombastic and in your face’ while he takes a strategic approach, and described him as ‘the ultimate civil servant/public servant’.
Ms Rayner has spent the summer since Labour’s general election victory working on the party’s overhaul of planning rules, while also spearheading a series of controversial workers’ rights reforms.
In an Instagram post on Thursday, which included the footage of Ms Rayner dancing, Van Outen wrote: ‘@pikesibiza @hiibizaofficial @followthefishtv (Including a surprise booth rave up with Angela Rayner) @tshamusic’.
Her buoyant mood contrasted by the tone struck by her boss on Tuesday, with the PM using a speech from the Downing Street Rose Garden to warn of a ‘painful’ Budget in October.
Sir Keir warned that October’s financial statement – the first by Labour in 14 years – would involve ‘short-term pain’.
His remarks were seen as a further sign that he is rolling the pitch for Chancellor Rachel Reeves to unveil a swathe of tax rises and public service cuts as she seeks to balance the books.
Sir Keir laid the blame for the situation at the door of the last Tory administration, saying it left the economy ‘worse than we ever imagined’.
And he defended the decision to make the Winter Fuel Allowance available only to benefit recipients, saying it was a ‘difficult trade-off’ but everyone, including pensioners, would benefit in the long term.