Angela Rayner’s story reads like a Charles Dickens novel: poverty, early pregnancy, dropping out of school. Today she is the strongest figure in Starmer’s cabinet – and the second most powerful woman in the kingdom.
When Angela Rayner, 44, talks about her childhood, listeners take a deep breath at one anecdote in particular: once her mother bought ten cans of meat on sale because, as always, money was tight. Among them was a can of dog food. “Because my mother couldn’t read or write, she thought it was beef stew.” Another time she sprayed shaving foam on the dessert because she thought the can was whipped cream.
Source: Stern
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