The privileged have become more wealthy, while people from disadvantaged backgrounds have had their opportunities to get on and move up closed… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
We can't have children growing up feeling unloved - the price is too high for that. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how many politicians have a working class background but they get it beaten out of them. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
I understand that every parent wants the best for their child because I want the best for my children too. — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
We had poverty in our house. Even on the council estate I knew I was one of the poorer kids. I used to go… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
If you want to underestimate me because I speak like a Mancunian, like the people I grew up with, then so be it at… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
Building a country that worked for everyone was supposed to be about supporting ordinary working class families, which is exactly what Labour's plan to… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
People are still programmed to think that if your child doesn't get straight As, get A-levels and go to a Russell Group university, that… — Angela Rayner Copy Share Image
