Angela Rayner

“Supporting any team has its ups and downs. But being part of a united team on the brink of victory, is the only way we're going to change the country for the better.”

“If I hadn't had access to the vital support of my local Sure Start centre, I would never have had the help I - and my son - needed.”

“I never got hugged as child.”

“Every one called me scruffy, a scratter, that's what they used to call me. I was known as that. Scratter was the nickname.”

“My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I'm the most successful because I've been given opportunities that they never had.”

“Labour is the party for the many.”

“Building a country that worked for everyone was supposed to be about supporting ordinary working class families, which is exactly what Labour's plan to bring back the maintenance grant would do.”

“No deal wouldn't return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.”

“I think class is still an issue in this country.”

“Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.”

“You never, ever give up the chance to change things, ever, no matter how hard it is. If you're elected, and have got the opportunity to make a difference, you take it.”

“The privileged have become more wealthy, while people from disadvantaged backgrounds have had their opportunities to get on and move up closed off. That's the Tory way.”

“I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.”

“People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.”

“The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.”

“Maintenance grants, a proud Labour achievement which made it easier for children from lower and middle income families to go to university, have been abolished in one fell swoop. To be replaced with loans.”

“At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government's policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.”

“2018 marks 30 years since Margaret Thatcher's government introduced Section 28, one of its most abominable policies. As a part of the Local Government Act, this Section was designed to prevent local authorities and schools from the so-called promotion of LGBT+ issues.”

“I remember going round to my friends' houses and asking them to ask their mum and dad if I could stay for dinner because I wasn't going to get fed.”

“I remember I had to have steel toecaps because my nana said, 'They'll last,' and I remember being bullied because my shoes weren't like anyone else's. Everyone had Kickers.”