If you asked anyone in Labour circles before Wednesday who was Sir Keir Starmer’s most likely successor, the chances are they would have said Angela Rayner. The deputy prime minister was a cabinet ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Angela Rayner has resigned after she admitted she did not pay enough stamp duty on the purchase of her £800,000 seaside flat. The ...

Angela Rayner said “for a teenage mum from a council estate in Stockport” to serve at the highest level of government was “the honour of her life” as she resigned over her tax affairs. She quit as ...

Angela Rayner was asked in a TV interview, when she was deputy PM, if she would ever want the top job. 'Not a chance,' she replied with a smile. 'It would age me by ten years within six months.' It's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ms Rayner resigned last year after she admitted she did not pay enough stamp duty on the purchase of her £800,000 seaside flat.

The ex-deputy PM did not name Keir Starmer in her attack on Labour's direction and policies - but she did not have to.

Angela Rayner has said that she "never" wants to be leader of the Labour Party amid mounting speculation that she has ambitions to replace Keir Starmer. The deputy prime minister's designs on party ...

Keir Starmer has this week promised Angela Rayner will be a “big voice” in the future and will return to frontline politics “at the right point”. The Prime Minister has praised his former deputy, who ...

Angela Rayner has secured a 'war chest' of more than £1million to fund her bid to succeed Sir Keir Starmer, her allies have claimed. Amid growing expectations that Sir Keir will soon face a challenge ...