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Unfortunately, the other half would love it. The hard-left and trade unions would be in dreamland if she made it into Number 10. And it could happen. If Andy Burnham loses the Makerfield by-election, Rayner is expected to make her move against Keir Starmer. Who can stop her? Wes Streeting? Fat chance. He’s too right-wing for today’s deranged Labour Party. Ed Miliband? He’d rather let Rayner front the operation while he runs things behind the scenes. So there’s a real chance she could be PM within months.

Rayner is a political steamroller. She even rode roughshod over HMRC. It waved through her stamp duty swerve, enraging lawyers who’ve seen it take a far tougher line with their clients. Rayner has also shaken off allegations that she avoided paying capital gains tax on her ex-council house and was aware of electoral fraud being plotted in her own kitchen. Rayner says she knew nothing about it. Perhaps she’d stepped outside for a vape at the time.

But her most damaging legacy will be the Employment Rights Bill, which started rolling out last December. Business groups warn it will heap billions of pounds of extra costs onto employers, deter recruitment and hand sweeping new powers to the unions. It’s about to spread chaos.

The bill has been called a charter for the workshy and lazy. It expands day-one rights to sick pay and parental leave, broadens bereavement leave to cover pretty much anybody you know, gives unions greater access to workplaces and makes strikes easier by dismantling Tory restrictions on industrial action.

Businesses already face soaring National Insurance bills and steep minimum wage hikes thanks to chancellor Rachel Reeves. Now they’re expected to absorb another wave of costs and bureaucracy too.

The jobs market has already cratered as a result, with unemployment climbing from 4.1% to 5% under Labour. Another 163,000 jobs are expected to disappear this year alone. Youth unemployment is at a 12-year high as Reeves prices an entire generation out of the labour market.

Yet Rayner refuses to acknowledge the connection. During the local elections she insisted: “a rising minimum wage must go alongside our programme to get young people into work”. Doesn’t she realise the first objective destroys the second? But this is only the start.

Her legislation is about to raise hell by unleashing a wave of trade union militancy that Britain hasn’t seen since the 1970s. And it’s targeting our children.

The hard-left National Education Union, led by Palestine-obsessed Marxist firebrand Daniel Kebede, is preparing for industrial confrontation. Activists now plan to “flood schools” with pro-strike propaganda and put the union “on a war footing”, according to the Daily Mail.

Kebede is ready to exploit Rayner’s softer strike laws, including online ballots and softer voting thresholds, to get his way. This is despite teachers receiving substantial pay rises under Labour.

We saw exactly the same pattern with the rail unions. No sooner had Labour caved into one set of demands than they started plotting the next dispute. That’s the problem with feeding militant unions. They always come back for more.

Rayner’s bill opens the door to a new era of industrial unrest just as the economy is already buckling under high taxes, weak growth and collapsing business confidence. Britain spent years escaping the chaos of the 1970s. Rayner is dragging us straight back there, and doesn’t even need to become PM to do it. Now imagine if she does…