Angela Rayner is a British politician serving as Shadow First Secretary of State and Deputy Leader of the Opposition since 2020. She has been Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Rayner identifies as a socialist and as being part of Labour’s soft left. She left school aged 16 after becoming pregnant and did not obtain any qualifications.
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Angela Rayner is a British politician serving as Shadow First Secretary of State and Deputy Leader of the Opposition since 2020. She has been Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Rayner identifies as a socialist and as being part of Labour’s soft left. She left school aged 16 after becoming pregnant and did not obtain any qualifications. She later trained in social care, eventually becoming a trade union representative within Unison, during which time she joined the Labour Party. In October 2020 Rayner called Greater Manchester Conservative MP Chris Clarkson’scum’ as he was giving a speech in Parliament at the time. She is also a member of the Labour Friends of Palestine & the Friends of the Middle East & the West.
She married Mark Rayner, a Unison official, in 2010 and has three sons: Ryan, aged 16; Jimmy and Charlie, aged 23; and Charlie was born prematurely at 23 weeks and was born with a cleft palate. In 2010, she married Mark and they have three sons, a son and a daughter. She was elected to Parliament in September 2014, after the retirement of David Heyes. She won the seat at the 2015 general election, increasing both the Labour majority and its share of the vote in the constituency. She nominated Andy Burnham in the 2015 Labour leadership election, but the following year became one of just 18 Members of Parliament to back the incumbent Jeremy Corbyn.
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