Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angela Rayner leaving 10 Downing Street earlier this year - Getty It was, I suppose, to be expected that someone would bring up ...

If you asked anyone in Labour circles before Wednesday who was Sir Keir Starmer's most likely successor, the chances are they would have said Angela Rayner. The deputy prime minister was a cabinet ...

Leaving school aged 16, pregnant and with no qualifications, Angela Rayner has had a meteoric rise to the second-highest office in the UK - and a spectacular fall from grace. Sir Keir Starmer's ...

For the best part of a year, Angela Rayner's political ambitions have been stifled by an investigation into her tax affairs. She resigned as deputy prime minister, housing secretary and deputy leader ...

The deputy prime minister was a cabinet favourite with members and a darling of Labour's trade union backers. But in a dramatic development on Friday, Ms Rayner was forced to resign - not only as ...