Sign up for our daily newsletter to get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox Angela Rayner has told how growing up in poverty on a Stockport council estate provided the perfect grounding for a career in politics.
In a wide-ranging interview with the Times, Labour's deputy leader opened up about caring for her mother, who has bipolar disorder, from the age of 10, getting pregnant at 15 and leaving school with no qualifications at 16.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP also revealed how she never received love and affection as a child and was once given dog food to eat because her mum couldn't read the label on the tin.
She was also given 'jelly and shaving foam' because her mother 'used to look on the pictures' on products. READ MORE:
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