“My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivatio...” — Angela Rayner Quote

“My mother suffers mental health problems and has a learning deprivation.”

“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.”

“If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.”

“I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.”

“Sleep deprivation is something very serious. I didn't think it could kill you, but I think it can.”

“The school in the Yorkshire mining village in which my father grew up in the 1920s and 1930s allowed only a few children to go to high school, and my father was not one of them. He spent much of his time as a young man repairing this deprivation, mostly at night school.”