Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Angela Rayner
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a British politician Angela Rayner.
Last updated on September 18, 2024.
If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be.
No deal wouldn't return sovereignty to the U.K., it would make us dependent on a sweetheart deal with Donald Trump.
Mental health is a case study in Tory failure.
Mum grew up in Wythenshawe, one of 12. My mum didn't really go to school and didn't see the need for education, she got bullied so she excluded herself.
The privileged have become more wealthy, while people from disadvantaged backgrounds have had their opportunities to get on and move up closed off. That's the Tory way.
My brother and sister are smarter than me. But I'm the most successful because I've been given opportunities that they never had.
Instead of helping a lucky few to escape disadvantage, a Labour government will aim to abolish poverty completely and create a more equal society, raising the living standards and well-being of all.
Underestimating grades has serious consequences for a student's choice of university, and their future.
Every child has potential. Every child can succeed. No child should be left out or left behind.
I understand that every parent wants the best for their child because I want the best for my children too.
Surely in a country that works for everyone ensuring that everyone has access to an excellent education should be the first priority of any government?
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.
The Tories should treat working families with more respect.
We need to focus on helping EVERY child to get a world-class education in EVERY school in this country.
You never, ever give up the chance to change things, ever, no matter how hard it is. If you're elected, and have got the opportunity to make a difference, you take it.
The way I want to try and end private schools is by making our national education service so good you wouldn't want to waste your money.
If people are going to be made worse off, the government should at least let them know. I don't think that's asking too much.
Sure Start transformed my life as a mum and allowed me to get back to work.
Give children healthy food and they behave better at school, concentrate more in class and perform better in exams.
I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.
Any success I have had is thanks to Labour governments that provided the council house, minimum wage, tax credits and Sure Start children's centre that enabled me to achieve it.
2018 marks 30 years since Margaret Thatcher's government introduced Section 28, one of its most abominable policies. As a part of the Local Government Act, this Section was designed to prevent local authorities and schools from the so-called promotion of LGBT+ issues.
I've met many lesbian, gay and trans activists who've told me what they face, sometimes even within the school gates: hate crime, fear of discrimination, physical and verbal abuse, domestic violence and homelessness.
Half of those people who experience mental health difficulties do so before the age of 14. The problems begin early - so early interventions are essential.
The graduate earnings premium, used by the Tories to justify many of their regressive higher education policies, is fast becoming a myth.
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.
Students from disadvantaged backgrounds will have the most debt, and then, being less likely than their affluent peers to go straight into high paying jobs, they will spend most of their working lives trying but failing to pay off that debt.
I never thought I would get a degree of any type.
Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to be given a head start for all of the top jobs and that's something that needs to be dealt with as well.
We as a nation cannot be satisfied with our children suffering health problems through no fault of their own.
Our higher education admissions process is neither fair nor effective.
We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.
I've seen at first-hand what Labour Governments can achieve in power.
The evidence shows that grammar schools overwhelmingly benefit those from more affluent backgrounds.
Working-class students more often lack the advice, guidance and support needed to navigate the tricky application process, whereas their wealthy peers at top public schools have admissions tutors to help their students game the system.
I'm a mum and I hate the thought of any child going a whole day at school without a healthy meal.
Building a country that worked for everyone was supposed to be about supporting ordinary working class families, which is exactly what Labour's plan to bring back the maintenance grant would do.
We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life.
My job is making sure that every child gets a good school place. If there is a particular disadvantage to a community, you invest more. Because that's the Labour way.
Maintenance grants, a proud Labour achievement which made it easier for children from lower and middle income families to go to university, have been abolished in one fell swoop. To be replaced with loans.
In the 2010 general election, the Liberal Democrats built their campaign around a pledge to abolish tuition fees. By the end of that year, however, they had tripled them instead. The Liberal Democrats had made young people feel as if they were on their side. They were not.
Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.
During the 2010 election campaign, Liberal Democrat candidates, including Swinson, signed the National Union of Students pledge to vote against tuition fees. Looking back, students were among the first to see the reality of the Liberal Democrats in government.
I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.
We must ensure that every single child can go as far as their ability and their aspirations will take them.
I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.
The British people overwhelmingly favour big businesses and the wealthiest individuals contributing their fair share so we can invest in our schools, hospitals and services.
Supporting any team has its ups and downs. But being part of a united team on the brink of victory, is the only way we're going to change the country for the better.
I was pregnant when I left school, so I needed income support. I didn't even have functional skills, not even GSCEs in English and Maths, so I needed to go back to college.
I wanted to prove I wasn't that person everyone wanted to stereotype me. You can slag me off, I talk about my upbringing now and try and do it in a way that inspires others, but I never felt good about it.
From 13/14 I was always hanging about with older boys. Boys in school used to call me names. But outside older boys would pay me attention because I looked older for my age. I was going to clubs from 14. I wanted to be loved.
People understand that any major reform to pensions is likely to create losers as well as winners.
Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I've never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.
I was born on a council estate with a mum who, despite doing everything she could for me, couldn't help me learn to read and write because she had never been taught herself. As the jargon would have it now, I was not 'school ready.'
One the reasons I talk about my story is I want other people who are in the circumstances I was in to understand they are just as good and as valuable as everyone else.
In a parliamentary democracy, it is the job of parliament to decide the law, not the government.
To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far too many that isn't happening.
Grammar schools are about stigmatising children, not on the grounds of their ability, but on their background.
Some of the Tories say, 'She left school at 16, she doesn't have a university degree, what does she know about education?' I say, I may not have a degree - but I have a Masters in real life.
Sometimes you have to invest in people to get the best out of them. To me, that is socialism. That is why I'm a Labour member rather than a Conservative.
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