Angela Rayner’s career took her from being a teenage mother in a council estate in Stockport to Deputy Prime Minister.
She quit the role on September 5 after she was found to have breached the ministerial code over her tax affairs.
She told Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: “The challenges of government are nothing compared to the challenge of putting food on the table and getting a roof over our head when I brought up kids working as a home help.”
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A strong and effective campaigner, Ms Rayner alongside Sir Keir, took an uncompromising stance on transgressions of the ministerial code while in opposition, which is likely to have contributed to her position as deputy prime minister becoming untenable.
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