Quotes from Angela Rayner

Some of the Tories say, 'She left school at 16, she doesn't have a university degree, what does she know about education?' I say, I may not have a degree - but I have a Masters in real life.

If the Tories are serious about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, regardless of their background, then the only thing they need to review is Labour's manifesto.

Mental health is a case study in Tory failure.

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.

Ideology never put food on my table.

I first learned the power of a Labour government to transform lives growing up in my hometown of Stockport.

We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.

Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.

We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.

The British people overwhelmingly favour big businesses and the wealthiest individuals contributing their fair share so we can invest in our schools, hospitals and services.

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.'

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.

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right.

Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I've never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.

I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.

My job is making sure that every child gets a good school place. If there is a particular disadvantage to a community, you invest more. Because that's the Labour way.

Labour is the party for the many.

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

We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life.

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.

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.

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.

Half of those people who experience mental health difficulties do so before the age of 14. The problems begin early - so early interventions are essential.

In the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats built their campaign around a pledge to abolish tuition fees. By the end of that year, however, they had tripled them instead. The Liberal Democrats had made young people feel as if they were on their side. They were not.