Angela Rayner has been accused of ‘vanity’ after hiring a £68,000-a-year photographer at taxpayers’ expense. The Deputy PM was reportedly hired on a salary of £68,000. It is normal for a prime minister to have a personal photographer, but she is understood to be the first deputy PM to have their own .

Angela Rayner, grinning from ear to ear, stares into the camera as she slurps a whisky cocktail through a straw. The snap, from a trip to the Johnnie Walker Experience in Edinburgh last month, was taken by the Deputy Prime Minister’s new “vanity” photographer.

As a row is sparked over whether the deputy prime minister has or hasn’t hired someone to document her working life, Simon Mills takes a look at everyone from Barack Obama to Boris Johnson and Nigel F

The lighthearted image captured on a visit to Scotland sits alongside more serious shots of her hard at work in the short weeks since Labour won the election taken by Simon Walker.