Britain has woken up to momentous news. Yes, yes, a Labour landslide, but along with that comes something else truly revolutionary - a flame-haired, 44-year-old grandmother is set to be deputy prime minister. And the power of this working-class, passionate northern woman becoming the second most powerful person in the land is not to be underestimated - as Angela Rayner herself has been time and again.
There’s a fine line between celebrating what makes Rayner uniquely placed to be a politician and risking patronising her for having ‘pulled herself up by the bootstraps’. But while her story has been told many times, it’s also what defines her political beliefs and makes the causes she fights for, as she put it herself during the election campaign, “personal”.
