Angela Rayner’s career took her from being a teenage mother in a council estate in Stockport to Deputy Prime Minister.
She quit the role on September 5 after she was found to have breached the ministerial code over her tax affairs.
She told Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer: “The challenges of government are nothing compared to the challenge of putting food on the table and getting a roof over our head when I brought up kids working as a home help.”
Here, we take a look back at her career in front-line politics: