Quotes by Angela Rayner - Page 2

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.
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Change Things
Elected
Make A Difference
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Valuable
Everyone Else
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Our admissions system should be a vehicle for justice, but it is failing working-class students, especially those who are the first in their family to go to university.
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Admission
Failing
University
Vehicle
Working Class
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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.
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Backgrounds
Disadvantaged
Privileged
People Way More
Closed
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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.
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Pregnant
Functional
Maths
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I remember I had to have steel toecaps because my nana said, 'They'll last,' and I remember being bullied because my shoes weren't like anyone else's. Everyone had Kickers.
Angela Rayner /
Remember
Said
Steel
Anyone
Last
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Fair Share
Favour
Hospitals
British People
Invest
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If the Tories are serious about ensuring everyone has the opportunity to learn, regardless of their background, then the only thing they need to review is Labour's manifesto.
Angela Rayner /
Ensuring
Manifesto
Regardless
Review
Tories
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Centre
Council
Minimum
Minimum Wage
Thanks
Credits
Governments
Provided
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Only Labour will provide the radical changes needed to create a free, fair and funded education system, which protects education as a right for the many, not a privilege for the few.
Angela Rayner /
Protects
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I wanted to be the best mum I could be. I just wanted the means to be able to help myself. And, luckily for me, I had a Sure Start centre and I had adult education I could go back into.
Angela Rayner /
Centre
Luckily
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At 16, out of school and pregnant, my own life could have been written off. It was the help I had from some of the then Labour government's policies such as Sure Start that turned it around.
Angela Rayner /
Pregnant
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Masters
Tories
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My mum didn't understand that education was an important thing. She couldn't do my homework with me. I was helping her read stuff. She once brought shaving soap thinking it was whipped cream.
Angela Rayner /
Cream
Homework
Shaving
Soap
Whipped
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Council
Income
Welfare
Welfare State
Penny
Ryan
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Maintenance
Exactly What
Grant
Supporting
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Abolish
Aim
Labour
Standards
Well Being
Disadvantage
Escape
Labour Government
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People are still programmed to think that if your child doesn't get straight As, get A-levels and go to a Russell Group university, that somehow they are not going to achieve in life. I think that's sad.
Angela Rayner /
Life Sad People
Programmed
Russell
Your Child
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Abolish
Achievement
Grants
Income
Labour
Maintenance
Replaced
Loans
Lower
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Slag
Stereotype
Upbringing
Good Me Way
Inspires
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School, for me, was not a place where you went to be educated, but a place where you got away from your parents for a couple of hours while they got some respite from you, and where you were able to see your mates.
Angela Rayner /
Mates
Me Parents School
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Discrimination
Gates
Homelessness
Activists
Domestic
Lesbian
Verbal
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It took 15 years and a Labour government to finally see Section 28 taken off the statute books. But this victory belongs to the LGBT+ activists who campaigned for so many years, fighting for change from the ground up.
Angela Rayner /
Activists
Belongs
Labour Government
Section
So Many Years
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Devotion
One Minute
Involve
Slip
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Clubs
Names
Age Always Me
Age Me School
Hanging
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Many parents know that hugging your children - telling them how amazing they are - is so important. Some parents, through no fault of their own, don't realise this. My mum was one of those who didn't realise, and I almost was too.
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Realise
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Gaming
Head Start
Money Start People
Dealt
Private
Private Schools
Schools
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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.'
Angela Rayner /
Council
Despite
Jargon
Me Doing Never
Estate
Herself
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Admission
Application
Guidance
Navigate
Peers
Tricky
Wealthy
Working Class
Public Schools
Tutors
Whereas
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Damage
Nurture
Fix
Plaster
Sticking
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Affluent
Backgrounds
Disadvantaged
Failing
Peers
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Parenting
Centre
Hug
Obvious
Love Time Start
Your Child
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Candidates
Election
Fees
Looking Back
Pledge
Tuition
Liberal Democrats
Signed
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Local Government
Promotion
Authorities
Designed
Introduced
Margaret
Marks
Prevent
Section
So-Called
Thatcher
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Abolish
Election
Fees
Pledge
Tuition
General
Side
Campaign
Democrats
General Election
However
Instead
Liberal
Liberal Democrats
Young People
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My kids live in a different environment than I did as a child. They've got privileges I didn't have as a child, but they have disadvantages. They don't see their mum as much. They see the threats that one gets. They live in a house where they've got panic buttons, and I've had to teach them about safety.
Angela Rayner /
Buttons
Disadvantages
Environment
Mum
Panic
Safety
Teach
Gets
Privileges
Threats
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We had poverty in our house. Even on the council estate I knew I was one of the poorer kids. I used to go round my friends houses on a Sunday to get their Sunday dinner because my mum couldn't cook either so I used to love going round my mates and say: 'Can you ask your Mum if I can come in for Sunday dinner?'
Angela Rayner /
Council
Dinner
Mates
Mum
Poverty
Sunday
Cook
Estate
Round
Houses
Poorer
To Love
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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.
Angela Rayner /
Finance
Aspiration
Better Life
Discouraging
Fairness
Mobility
Sustainable
Encourages
Governed
Increases
Ladder
Mounting
Punishing
Tories
Unsustainable
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