Maintenance grants, a proud Labour achievement which made it easier for children from lower and middle income families to go to university, have been abolished in one fell swoop. To be replaced with loans. — 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
