Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner on her ‘natural affinity’ with LGBT+ people and ‘accidentally’ turning up to a fetish night

Angela Rayner has always thought of herself as an underdog. Aged 16, she was told she would never amount to anything. Raised in a Stockport council estate, Rayner left school without any qualifications. She was pregnant, never went to university and was devoted to caring for her mother. Aged 40, she is the deputy leader...