Angela Rayner

The Right Honourable

Angela Rayner

MP
Official portrait, 2024
Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
In office
5 July 2024 – 5 September 2025
MonarchCharles III
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byOliver Dowden
Succeeded byDavid Lammy
Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government[a]
In office
5 July 2024 – 5 September 2025
Prime MinisterKeir Starmer
Preceded byMichael Gove
Succeeded bySteve Reed
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
In office
4 April 2020 – 5 September 2025
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byTom Watson
Succeeded byTBD
Party political offices
2020–2021
Chair of the Labour Party
In office
5 April 2020 – 8 May 2021
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byIan Lavery
Succeeded byAnneliese Dodds
Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator
In office
5 April 2020 – 8 May 2021
LeaderKeir Starmer
Preceded byIan Lavery
Andrew Gwynne
Succeeded byShabana Mahmood
Shadow portfolios
2016–2024
Senior portfolios
2020–2024Deputy Leader of the Opposition
2023–2024Deputy Prime Minister
2023–2024Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
2021–2023Duchy of Lancaster & Cabinet Office
2021–2023Future of Work
2020–2023First Secretary of State
2016–2020Education
Junior portfolios
2016–2016Women and Equalities
2016–2016Pensions
Member of Parliament
for Ashton-under-Lyne
Assumed office
7 May 2015
Preceded byDavid Heyes
Majority6,791 (19.1%)
Personal details
Born
Angela Bowen

(1980-03-28) 28 March 1980
Stockport, Greater Manchester, England
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)
Mark Rayner
​
​
(m. 2010; sep. 2020)​
Domestic partner
  • Neil Batty (1995–2005)
  • Sam Tarry (2022-2023)
Children3
ResidenceAshton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
Hove, East Sussex
EducationAvondale High School
Alma materStockport College
Websitewww.angelarayner.co.uk

Angela Rayner (née Bowen; born 28 March 1980) is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 until 2025. She was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2020 until 2025. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015.[2] She served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for Education and in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer.

In January 2020, Rayner announced her candidacy for Labour Deputy Leader in the 2020 deputy leadership election, which she won.[3]

Rayner identifies as a socialist.[4][5]

On 5 September 2025, Rayner resigned from her ministerial position and as the deputy prime minister, and as leader of the party, following the prime minister's ethics adviser, Laurie Magnus, finding that she had broke the ministerial code in relation to her failure to pay the correct amount of tax on one of her properties.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Known as Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities until 9 July 2024.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Carey, Adam (9 July 2024). "Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities becomes Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government again". Local Government Lawyer. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "Ashton-under-Lyne". BBC News Online. Archived from the original on 11 May 2015.
  3. ↑ 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)
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ Whannel, Kate (5 September 2025). "Angela Rayner resigns after underpaying tax on Hove flat". BBC News.
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