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Angela Rayner is set to become the UK’s deputy prime minister if Labour wins the next general election.
Here’s what you need to know about the party’s deputy leader – from her early life and career in politics to the abuse and controversy she has faced.
Early life and career
Born in Stockport in 1980, Ms Rayner was brought up on a council estate. She left school at 16 with no qualifications and pregnant with her first son.
She says she was told she would “never amount to anything”.
“When I was young, we didn’t have books because my mother couldn’t read or write,” Ms Rayner said in an interview with the Financial Times.
She told the newspaper she could easily have been taken into care and admitted she felt “resentment” because, as a child, she had to look after her mother, who had bipolar disorder.
After giving birth, Ms Rayner went to college part-time, studying British sign language and social care.
Soon after becoming a care worker for the local council, she was put forward as a union rep.
“I was mouthy and I would take no messing from management,” Ms Rayner said.
From there, she became a full-time union official and rose through the ranks to become Unison’s convenor in the North West, representing 200,000 workers.
Ms Rayner married Unison official Mark Rayner in 2010. The couple separated in 2020.
She has three sons and in 2017, she became a grandmother.
Life in politics
Angela Rayner on the Labour frontbench with Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott in 2017
Ms Rayner entered parliament In 2015, when she became the first woman MP in the 180-year history of her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.
She went on to hold the position of shadow pensions minister, as well as the education and women and equalities briefs in the shadow cabinet.
She was elected as deputy leader of the Labour Party in 2020 but was sacked as party chair following poor results in the…
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