Angela Rayner
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Angela Rayner MP |
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Rayner giving her 2016 Labour Party Conference speech
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| Shadow Secretary of State for Education | |
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Assumed office 1 July 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Pat Glass |
| Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities | |
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In office 27 June 2016 – 6 October 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Kate Green |
| Succeeded by | Sarah Champion |
| Shadow Minister for Pensions | |
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In office 11 January 2016 – 1 July 2016 |
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| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Nick Thomas-Symonds |
| Succeeded by | Alex Cunningham |
| Member of Parliament for Ashton-under-Lyne |
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Assumed office 8 May 2015 |
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| Preceded by | David Heyes |
| Majority | 10,756 |
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28 March 1980 , England, UK |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Mark Rayner |
| Children | 3 sons |
Angela Rayner (née Bowen; born 28 March 1980) is a British Labour politician.
Rayner was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne at the 2015 general election.
She is the Shadow Secretary of State for Education.
Born Angela Bowen, she attended , , leaving school as a pregnant teenager, and with no qualifications.
She then worked for as a care worker before being elected as a UNISON union representative. She served as Convenor of UNISON North West, the most senior UNISON official in the region.
The Guardian featured a long profile of Rayner in 2012, as an example of a trade union officer's working life.
Rayner contested the Ashton-under-Lyne constituency at the 2015 general election, and increased the Labour majority and share of the vote in the constituency. She delivered her maiden speech in the House of Commons on 3 June 2015.
On 27 June 2016, she was promoted to Shadow Women and Equalities Minister, and was further promoted later that week to Shadow Education Secretary, as Jeremy Corbyn reshuffled his shadow cabinet following a string of resignations. Rayner had previously served as Opposition Whip and Shadow Pensions Minister.
Rayner is married to her husband Mark Rayner, a Unison official. She has three sons, Ryan, who was born when she was aged 16, Jimmy, and Charlie. Charlie was born very prematurely at 23 weeks and she uses the care he received as a mark of the importance of the National Health Service and educational policy.
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