The political rise and fall of Angela Rayner

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 right-hand woman has now resigned after she admitted to Sky News political editor Beth Rigby she had not paid enough stamp duty on a second home she bought in Hove, East Sussex, earlier this year.

Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-angela-rayner-starmer-labour-badenoch-farage-reform-12593360

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Post from Sky News on September 05, 2025

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