My mum didn’t understand that education was an important thing. She couldn’t do my homework with me. I was helping her read stuff. She once brought shaving soap thinking it was whipped cream. Angela Rayner Read Quote
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. Angela Rayner Read Quote
I’m the only member of the house, who at age 16, and pregnant, was told in no uncertain terms, I’d never amount to anything. Angela Rayner Read Quote
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. Angela Rayner Read Quote
I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn’t help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not ‘school ready.’ Angela Rayner Read Quote
Politics changes lives. You would expect me, as a politician, to say that. But I don’t say it as a politician: I say it as someone whose own life was changed. Angela Rayner Read Quote
As a young single mum struggling to get by, I didn’t get to go to university, but that level of debt would have been unimaginable. Angela Rayner Read Quote
I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don’t accept that. Angela Rayner Read Quote
My school, we affectionately nicknamed it Avonjail, but it was called Avondale, Avondale high school in Stockport. I left with no GCSEs above a D. Angela Rayner Read Quote
