It’s hard not to admire Angela Rayner. Her backstory is almost cinematic – bullied kid growing up poor in Stockport, Manchester, told she would never amount to anything, illiterate mentally ill mother who she cared for from the age of ten. Pregnant at 16, deputy leader of the Labour Party by 40.
She doesn’t have a single GCSE and her thrilling pivot from Corbyn’s hard left comrade to deputy for straight-laced centrist Keir Starmer, must have taken a lot of hard graft and grit. I love a woman with ambition.
