In Pictures: The rise and fall of Angela Rayner

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.”

Here, we take a look back at her career in front-line politics:

Ms Rayner was one of only a handful of Labour MPs to nominate Jeremy Corbyn in the 2015 Labour leadership contest. Mr Corbyn went on to win the contest convincingly and was leader of the opposition until 2020, leading the party during the 2016 referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU and general elections in 2017 and 2019.

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.