Angela Rayner

About Angela Rayner

MP for Ashton-under-Lyne since 7th May 2015 and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party since 4th April 2020.

Angela Rayner (née Bowen; born 28 March 1980) is a British politician and trade unionist who has been Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. She served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2020 to 2025, and as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government from July 2024 until her resignation in September 2025. Ideologically she identifies as a socialist and as part of Labour's soft left.

Between 1995 and 1999 Rayner was in a relationship with Neil Batty. In 1996, aged 16, she gave birth to their son,[8] Ryan. Recalling her experience of being a teenage mother on a council estate, she said that Ryan's birth "actually saved me from where I could have been, because I had a little person to look after."[86][87][88] When Ryan's partner had a daughter in November 2017, Rayner became a grandmother at age 37, giving herself the nickname "Grangela."[88][87]

In September 2010 she married Mark Rayner, a Unison official, with whom she had two more sons, Charlie and Jimmy.[3][89] Rayner says that the care her son Charlie received after his premature birth demonstrated the importance of the NHS to her.[13][90] Rayner and her husband separated in 2020.[88][91]

In the summer of 2022 journalists began reporting Rayner was "in a relationship" with Labour MP Sam Tarry; the relationship ended in 2023,[88] and then resumed.[92]

Rayner stated in interviews that she had breast implants when she was 30.