Angela Rayner (née Bowen; born 28 March 1980) is a British politician serving as the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024. She also has been the Deputy Leader of the Opposition since 2020. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015.[1] She served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for Education and in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer.
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| Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Oliver Dowden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 5 July 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Michael Gove | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Deputy Leader of the Labour Party | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 4 April 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Leader | Keir Starmer | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Tom Watson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | David Heyes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Angela Bowen 28 March 1980 Stockport, Greater Manchester, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Labour | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse(s) |
Mark Rayner
(m. 2010; sep. 2020) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Domestic partner | Sam Tarry (2022–2023) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Residence | Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Stockport College | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In January 2020, Rayner announced her candidacy for Labour Deputy Leader in the 2020 deputy leadership election, which she won.[2]
References
change- ↑ "Ashton-under-Lyne". BBC News Online. Archived from the original on 11 May 2015.
- ↑ correspondent, Kate Proctor Political (2020-01-06). "'We must win or die': Angela Rayner stands for deputy Labour leader". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-01-06.
{{cite news}}:|last=has generic name (help) - ↑ Moss, Stephen (28 July 2017). "Labour's Angela Rayner: 'Ideology never put food on my table'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 28 July 2017.
- ↑ Proctor, Kate (6 January 2020). "Angela Rayner: I'm a socialist but not a 'Corbynite'". Archived from the original on 13 September 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
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