To think that Angela Rayner could be PM one day.

[Breathoffreshair82]

I just think she's a breath of fresh air. She's real and authentic, she's come from a poor upbringing. She was her mums carer age 9, was a teenager mum, worked in social care and worked her way up the ladder. I just find it amazing that she's achieved all of this from how her life started. If she was running for PM and the next general election I will definitely be voting for her.

No discrimination against a woman on here, not at all. Too bloody common innit? Class based misogyny. From women who profess none of it.

Angela Raynor is uncommon by virtue of surmounting her disadvantages to reach the Shadow Deputy Leadership. There have been other female Labour MPs I have liked better and considered more competent... quite a few, and some men too. But I recoil from show-boating tribalism, from any politicians. Which, like others here, leaves me politically homeless.

The Daily M has an article on her close friendship with a married MP.
Amanda Platell writes ".....although rumours have been rife for weeks at Westminster about their 'deepening friendship' reports of an affair may be premature........"

I’m wondering who’s looking after her three kids if she separated from DH.

@DontBlameMe79

I’m wondering who’s looking after her three kids if she separated from DH.

Their dad?

@PerseverancePays

Could the force of Mumsnet steer a change in the Labour policy of discrimination against women? All the alternatives to the Tories have this and I have no one left to vote for.

There’s definitely something in this

@Sir Sam. I thought he was out of the picture…but I might be wrong on this, not fully aware.

@DontBlameMe79

I’m wondering who’s looking after her three kids if she separated from DH.

She'll be managing it the same way any other working single mother manages it.

(Assuming she doesn't have a partner, I don't know her relationship status).

Last month Ms Rayner was reported to have called Conservative ministers "a bunch of scum"

Again?

@DontBlameMe79

I’m wondering who’s looking after her three kids if she separated from DH.

Leaving aside the sexist nature of the question , her husband gave up his career to do the child care etc when she got into Parliament so I expect he has continued in that role

She became a grandmother aged 37.

What does that have to do with anything @Snoozer11?

She has a very strident delivery when speaking. I find it very off putting.

A grandmother tsk. Not ideal, but how many kids, in and out of marriage, has our illustrious PM spawned? Or is it just women who have to keep their knickers on?

@Snoozer11

She became a grandmother aged 37.

How is that relevant to her ability to do the job?