Angela Rayner met her Spitting Image puppet on Tuesday night as she visited the West End to see a stage version of the famous satire.

Ms Rayner shared a photograph of her posing with her marionette likeness after watching Idiots Assemble: Spitting Image The Musical at the Phoenix Theatre in Charing Cross.

In the production, co-written by comedians Al Murray and Matt Forde, the deputy Labour leader is depicted as one of a ‘Magnificent Seven’ of celebrity misfits also featuring Greta Thunberg, Meghan Markle and Tom Cruise.

Posting a picture on Twitter as she posed with her doppelganger, Ms Rayner said: “There’s only one Angela Rayner. Or is there?”