Angela Rayner

Angela Rayner
MP
Member of Parliament
for Ashton-under-Lyne
Assumed office
8 May 2015
Preceded by David Heyes
Majority 10,756
Personal details
Born (1980-03-28) 28 March 1980
Stockport, United Kingdom
Political party Labour
Spouse(s) Mark Rayner
Children 3 sons

Angela Rayner (born 1980)[1] is a British Labour politician and a former trade union official.[2]

Rayner was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne in 2015.[3]

Life and career

Educated at Avondale School, Stockport,[4] Angela Rayner (née Bowen) worked for Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council as a care worker before being elected as a UNISON union representative.[5]

After serving as Convenor of UNISON North West, Rayner was selected as the Labour candidate for Ashton-under-Lyne at the 2015 general election, which she contested successfully by increasing Labour's majority and share of the vote in the constituency.[6] She delivered her maiden speech in the House of Commons on 3 June 2015.

The Guardian featured Rayner at length in 2012 by way of example of a trade union officer's working life,[7] when she was UNISON Branch Secretary on Stockport Council.[8]

She has three sons, the first of whom was born when she was aged 16:[9] Charlie was born very prematurely at 23 weeks and she uses the care he received as a mark of the importance of the National Health Service and educational policy. [10]

She lives in Stockport with her family, including two sons by her husband, Mark Rayner, also a UNISON official.[11]

References

  1. ↑ www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk
  2. ↑ www.parliament.uk
  3. ↑ "Ashton-under-Lyne". BBC News.
  4. ↑ www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk
  5. ↑ www.gov.uk
  6. ↑ "New Labour candidate: We need real people with life experience to bring common sense to Parliament". Manchester Evening News. 8 September 2014.
  7. ↑ "A working life: the Union Official". The Guardian. 17 February 2012.
  8. ↑ www.angelarayner.org.uk
  9. ↑ www.bbc.co.uk
  10. ↑ "UK unions blast Education Secretary over controversial reforms". Equal Times. 30 April 2013.
  11. ↑ www.unisonnw.org

External links

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
David Heyes		 Member of Parliament
for Ashton-under-Lyne
2015–present 		Incumbent
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