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A tight shot of Angela Rayner's head with her hands clasped
Rayner has served as shadow deputy prime minister since 2023
(Image credit: Leon Neal / Getty Images)

Angela Rayner unnerves the Tories, said Adam Boulton in The i Paper. In an "otherwise austere Labour leadership team", the party's deputy leader stands out for her charisma and remarkable backstory. 

Raised by an illiterate, disabled mother, she left school at 16, with no qualifications, to care for her own baby, and later worked in social care before becoming a trade union official. Rayner is not some "dismal, hair-shirted, middle-class lefty". She's lively, authentic and "unembarrassedly aspirational". 

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