Angela Rayner's real life story and her remarkable rise to power

"I used to be the most famous person off Bridgehall estate and then we got [Phil] Foden," Angela Rayner giggles gleefully.

"He's just ruined it for me. Before Foden it was me and now the kids rip my picture off the school wall and it's Foden all the way."

Speaking to the Manchester Evening News on Labour's election battle bus, the party's deputy leader is on home turf. She is back in Ashton-under-Lyne - the constituency she has represented in Parliament as an MP since 2015 - surrounded by friends and comrades.

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And while she jokes about a Man City footballer being more famous than her, she knows she is poised to become one of the most powerful women in the UK. As polls predicted, her party went on to win a landslide victory at the election a few weeks later.

Her remarkable rise to power shows why you cannot write anyone off. She is now the deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Born in 1980, Angela's parents were on benefits. She was a 'free school meals' kid.

So far, not so extraordinary. But in interviews over the years, she has revealed how difficult her upbringing really was.

Angela had to look after mum, who had bipolar disorder. She did not grow up with books because her mum could not read or write.

Her father hardly worked, she says, due to health issues. Looking back, she believes she could easily have been taken into care.

At 16, she had her first son, Ryan. She took her exams at the failing Avondale Secondary - now Stockport Academy - while pregnant.

Leaving with school with seven low-grade GCSEs, she later studied part-time at Stockport College before becoming a care worker. It was in this role that she was first elected as a trade