“There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a ...” — Angela Rayner Quote

“There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I'd even paid a penny of tax.”

“I don't want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don't want to fix children once the system's broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that - because the system should protect and nurture, and not damage our children.”

“Child poverty is more than an abstract problem to me. It's something I know all too much about.”

“We lived in the top-floor council flat, the same level as the flyovers going past the window. I loved it. I used to imagine who the people were, what they were doing, what their lives were like.”

“When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.”

“That's one of the things that I'm going to talk about, is the need for the Human Rights Council to actually deal with human rights. We've got countries on the Human Rights Council right now like Venezuela and Cuba.”