100 Quotes by Angela Rayner

Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I'm a Labour member rather than a Conservative.

My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.

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.

Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.

If people are going to be made worse off, the government should at least let them know. I don't think that's asking too much.

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.

We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.

People are still programmed to think that if your child doesn't get straight As, get A-levels and go to a Russell Group university, that somehow they are not going to achieve in life. I think that's sad.

I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.