Angela Rayner

Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.

— Angela Rayner

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

— Angela Rayner

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

— Angela Rayner

We as a nation cannot be satisfied with our children suffering health problems through no fault of their own.

— Angela Rayner

The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.

— Angela Rayner

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

— Angela Rayner

I understand that every parent wants the best for their child because I want the best for my children too.

— 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

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a…

— 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

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

— Angela Rayner

Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority…

— 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

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

— Angela Rayner

Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why…

— Angela Rayner

To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far…

— Angela Rayner

I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn…

— Angela Rayner

Many parents know that hugging your children - telling them how amazing they are - is so important. Some parents, through no…

— 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

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

— Angela Rayner

We had poverty in our house. Even on the council estate I knew I was one of the poorer kids. I used…

— Angela Rayner

In the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats built their campaign around a pledge to abolish tuition fees. By the end of…

— 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

One the reasons I talk about my story is I want other people who are in the circumstances I was in to…

— Angela Rayner

Every one called me scruffy, a scratter, that's what they used to call me. I was known as that. Scratter was the…

— Angela Rayner

I remember going round to my friends' houses and asking them to ask their mum and dad if I could stay for…

— Angela Rayner

Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don't say it as a politician: I…

— Angela Rayner

Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league,…

— Angela Rayner

My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I'm the most successful because I've been given opportunities that they never had.

— 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

It took 15 years and a Labour government to finally see Section 28 taken off the statute books. But this victory belongs…

— 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

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

— Angela Rayner

My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs…

— 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

No deal wouldn't return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.

— 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

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

I mean getting into parliament was quite an achievement in itself and then I have to pinch myself at the thought of…

— 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