Angela Rayner

**Angela Rayner** (_née_ **Bowen**; born 28 March 1980) is a British politician who was the Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 until 2025. She was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2020 until 2025. She has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. She served in the Shadow Cabinet of Jeremy Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for Education and in the Shadow Cabinet of Keir Starmer.

In January 2020, Rayner announced her candidacy for Labour Deputy Leader in the 2020 deputy leadership election, which she won.

Rayner identifies as a socialist.

On 5 September 2025, Rayner resigned from her ministerial position and as the deputy prime minister, and as leader of the party, following the prime minister's ethics adviser, Laurie Magnus, finding that she had broke the ministerial code in relation to her failure to pay the correct amount of tax on one of her properties.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office3**: Chair of the Labour Party
- **leader3**: Keir Starmer
- **term start3**: 5 April 2020
- **term end3**: 8 May 2021
- **predecessor3**: Ian Lavery
- **successor3**: Anneliese Dodds
- **office4**: Labour Party (UK), Labour Party National Campaign Coordinator
- **leader4**: Keir Starmer
- **term start4**: 5 April 2020
- **term end4**: 8 May 2021
- **predecessor4**: Ian Lavery
Andrew Gwynne
- **successor4**: Shabana Mahmood


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **title5**: Senior portfolios
- **subterm5**: 2020–2024
- **suboffice5**: Deputy Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom), Deputy Leader of the Opposition
- **subterm6**: 2023–2024
- **suboffice6**: Shadow Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Deputy Prime Minister
- **subterm7**: 2023–2024
- **suboffice7**: Shadow Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
- **subterm8**: 2021–2023
- **suboffice8**: Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Duchy of Lancaster & Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office, Cabinet Office
- **subterm9**: 2021–2023
- **suboffice9**: Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet (United Kingdom), Future of Work
- **subterm10**: 2020–2023
- **suboffice10**: Shadow First Secretary of State, First Secretary of State
- **subterm11**: 2016–2020
- **suboffice11**: Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Education
- **title13**: Junior portfolios
- **subterm13**: 2016–2016
- **suboffice13**: Shadow Minister for Women and Equalities, Women and Equalities
- **subterm14**: 2016–2016
- **suboffice14**: Department for Work and Pensions, Pensions


## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: The Right Honourable
- **name**: Angela Rayner
- **image**: Official portrait of Angela Rayner MP crop 2, 2024.jpg
- **caption**: Official portrait, 2024
- **office**: Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- **term start**: 5 July 2024
- **term end**: 5 September 2025
- **monarch**: Charles III
- **primeminister**: Keir Starmer
- **office2**: Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (UK), Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
- **leader2**: Keir Starmer
- **term start2**: 4 April 2020
- **term end2**: 5 September 2025
- **predecessor2**: Tom Watson, Baron Watson of Wyre Forest, Tom Watson
- **successor2**: Lucy Powell
- **office15**: Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliament
for Ashton-under-Lyne (UK Parliament constituency), Ashton-under-Lyne
- **term start15**: 7 May 2015
- **predecessor15**: David Heyes
- **majority15**: 6,791 (19.1%)
- **birth name**: Angela Bowen
- **birth place**: Stockport, Greater Manchester, England
- **residence**: Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester
Hove, East Sussex
- **party**: Labour Party (UK), Labour
- **children**: 3
- **education**: Stockport Academy, Avondale High School
- **alma mater**: Stockport College
- **predecessor**: Oliver Dowden
- **office1**: Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government
- **termstart1**: 5 July 2024
- **termend1**: 5 September 2025
- **predecessor1**: Michael Gove
- **primeminister1**: Keir Starmer
- **termend2**: 5 September 2025
- **successor**: David Lammy
- **successor1**: Steve Reed (politician), Steve Reed