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Line 89: ==Early life and career== {{Angela Rayner sidebar}} Angela Bowen was born on 28 March 1980 in [[Stockport]], [[Greater Manchester]].<ref name=whoswho>{{Who's Who \| author=Anon\| title = Rayner, Rt Hon. Angela \| id = U283864 \| year = 2017 \| doi =10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U283864 \| edition = ~~online~~176th\|publisher= [[Oxford University Press]]\|location=Oxford\|isbn=9781399409452\|oclc=1402257203\|pages=2736}}</ref> She grew up in poverty on a council estate with her brother and sister and says she could have been taken into [[Social care in England\|care]].<ref name="JimPickard2022" /> Her mother's [[bipolar disorder]] impacted the family; Rayner has stated: "When I was young, we didn't have books because my mother could not read or write."<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Who is Angela Rayner? The story behind the country's possible next deputy PM \|url=https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-angela-rayner-the-story-behind-the-countrys-possible-next-deputy-pm-12978052 \|access-date=28 May 2024 \|website=Sky News \|archive-date=13 June 2024 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240613080227/https://news.sky.com/story/who-is-angela-rayner-the-story-behind-the-countrys-possible-next-deputy-pm-12978052 \|url-status=live }}</ref> Her website describes how, "[f]or the most part, I was raised by my grandma who worked at three jobs to put food on the table and didn't stop until the day she died - three days before her 65th birthday." Rayner attended [[Stockport Academy\|Avondale High School]] in Stockport. At age 16, she became pregnant, and left school without obtaining any qualifications.<ref name="oldham">{{cite news \|url=http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/101/features/88867/not-bad-for-a-ginger-kid \|title=Not bad for a ginger kid! \|work=[[Oldham Chronicle]] \|date=11 November 2014 \|access-date=19 July 2016 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160819045552/http://www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk/news-features/101/features/88867/not-bad-for-a-ginger-kid \|archive-date=19 August 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news \|title=Teen mum turned Labour MP: Why Angela Rayner should have the Tories running scared \|last=Newman \|first=Cathy \|work=The Telegraph \|date=29 September 2016 \|url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/teen-mum-turned-labour-mp-why-angela-rayner-should-have-the-tori/\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160930081709/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/politics/teen-mum-turned-labour-mp-why-angela-rayner-should-have-the-tori/\|archive-date=30 September 2016}}</ref> She later studied part-time at [[Stockport College]], learning [[British Sign Language]], and gaining an [[National Vocational Qualification\|National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) Level 2]] in [[social care in England\|social care]].<ref name=whoswho /><ref name="huffpo">{{cite news \|last1=Rayner \|first1=Angela \|title=Education Gave Me A Vital Second Chance That Too Many People Still Don't Get \|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-education_uk_5dca8440e4b0fcfb7f6c53fa \|work=HuffPost UK \|date=12 November 2019 \|access-date=16 September 2021 \|archive-date=16 September 2021 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916194715/https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour-education_uk_5dca8440e4b0fcfb7f6c53fa \|url-status=live }}</ref> Rayner has spoken about how the [[Sure Start]] centres of the [[New Labour]] governments of [[Tony Blair]] and [[Gordon Brown]] assisted her as a young mother with little support.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Rayner \|first=Angela \|date=2017-06-01 \|title=How Labour took me from teenage mother to shadow education secretary \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/01/labour-shadow-education-secretary-sure-start \|access-date=2024-07-08 \|work=The Guardian \|language=en-GB \|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

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