Rayner Attacks Reform UK Candidate Kenyon as Farage’s “Sexist Puppet” Over Misogynistic Online Posts
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner attacked Reform UK’s Robert Kenyon as Nigel Farage’s “sexist puppet” Tuesday over Kenyon’s history of misogynistic online posts. Kenyon has faced major backlash in recent weeks over a series of online posts about women. The Rayner attack is the most explicit Cabinet-level intervention against the Reform UK candidate; the “sexist puppet” framing positions Kenyon as a Farage projection rather than an independent candidate. The Rayner intervention compounds the structural Reform UK Sunday Farage Substack “two-tier state” row through the final 48 hours.
The Rayner “sexist puppet” framing is the most explicit Cabinet-level personal attack on a Reform UK candidate of the cycle. Kenyon’s misogynistic online-posts history reportedly includes posts about female MPs, female journalists and broader misogynistic content; the Reform UK campaign initially defended Kenyon but the position has materially weakened through the final week. The Rayner attack converges with the Sunday Farage Substack “two-tier state against white people” framing into a structural Reform UK racial-and-gender-policy positioning that materially compounds the Restore Britain spoiler effect. Tory leader Kemi Badenoch’s Saturday cross-party letter on welfare cuts and defence spending is the structural Conservative attempt to reset the narrative.