Tories are 'quite scared of me because they don't often meet people like me', says Labour's Angela Rayner

Labour's deputy leader has said some Tories are 'quite scared of me because they don't often meet people like me'.

The Ashton-under-Lyne MP made the comment in a wide-ranging interview with The Observer in which she spoke about the trolling she receives online and how Labour won't nationalise industries if it would cost 'a load of money'.

The former Stockport Council care worker, on her own website, trumpets how different she is from many other MPs as she never went to university, left school with no qualifications and is 'not an Oxbridge-educated, former special adviser, professional politician'.

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She told the Sunday newspaper many Conservative members of Parliament were 'quite scared of me… because they don’t often meet people like me', although she stressed she gets on with colleagues from all sides.

"We’re all parliamentarians and it’s about respecting the fact that we are all here to represent our constituents," she said. "We may have a difference of opinion, and that’s fine, but we generally rub along OK.

"It’s the nasty, anonymous briefings to the press that give the idea that parliamentarians are a bunch of horrible, back-stabbing individuals, but I don’t recognise that on a day-to-day basis.”

Ms Rayner has faced considerable attacks on social media and received death threats which have seen panic buttons installed in her house and her teenage sons receiving security escorts.

"Most of the trolling is misogynistic – calling me a bitch and things like that," she said. “Or saying I’m thick because I haven’t been to university and can’t speak properly.

"Well, I’m not thick, obviously, otherwise I wouldn’t have got where I am today. And