Angela Rayner

The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.

— Angela Rayner

Supporting any team has its ups and downs. But being part of a united team on the brink of victory, is the…

— Angela Rayner

In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.

— Angela Rayner

Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.

— Angela Rayner

2018 marks 30 years since Margaret Thatcher's government introduced Section 28, one of its most abominable policies. As a part of the…

— Angela Rayner

I remember I had to have steel toecaps because my nana said, 'They'll last,' and I remember being bullied because my shoes…

— Angela Rayner

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that.

— Angela Rayner

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it…

— Angela Rayner

Labour is the party for the many.

— Angela Rayner

Growing up without love, without being cared for, might be the worst type of poverty.

— Angela Rayner

Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.

— Angela Rayner

I wanted to be the best mum I could be. I just wanted the means to be able to help myself. And,…

— Angela Rayner

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

— Angela Rayner

I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.

— Angela Rayner

At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from…

— Angela Rayner

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

— Angela Rayner

Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.

— Angela Rayner

I've always been the girl who can't sit on her hands. If there's a pink elephant in the room, I'll identify it…

— Angela Rayner

If people are going to be made worse off, the government should at least let them know. I don't think that's asking…

— Angela Rayner

I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my…

— Angela Rayner

If I hadn't had access to the vital support of my local Sure Start centre, I would never have had the help…

— Angela Rayner

Students from disadvantaged backgrounds will have the most debt, and then, being less likely than their affluent peers to go straight into…

— Angela Rayner

I was pregnant when I left school, so I needed income support. I didn't even have functional skills, not even GSCEs in…

— Angela Rayner

I'm a mum and I hate the thought of any child going a whole day at school without a healthy meal.

— Angela Rayner

I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem…

— Angela Rayner