ANGELA RAYNER is Labour’s deputy leader and has been the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne since being elected in 2015.
Rayner was married to Mark Rayner until 2020, but who is the former union rep?
Who is Angela Rayner’s ex Mark?
Before being a member of the Labor Party, Angela Rayner was a union representative for Unison.
Angela met Mark Rayner through her union work, where he worked as a union official.
Angela said The Guardian he brought stability to his busy life.
To support her career, Mark took time off from work and focused on raising his children.
When did Angela Rayner and Mark get married?
Rayner, whose maiden name was Bowen, married Mark in 2010.
Mark became stepfather to Angela’s first child, Ryan, who she had at 16.
They had two children together.
When did Angela Rayner and her husband Mark split?
Angela Rayner separated from her husband in 2020.
They had been married for ten years when they separated.
They continued to share a house together with their two children.
Do Angela Rayner and her ex Mark have children?
Mark and Angela have two children together.
Their first, Charlie, was born prematurely at 23 weeks and was registered blind.
She said The Sunday Times Magazine that her 2-pound son “looked like a baby sparrow.”
The couple had a second son, Jimmy.
Mark is also stepfather to Angela’s firstborn, Ryan, who she had when she was 16.
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Addressing her experience as a teenage mother in 2017, she said: “Even though getting pregnant at 16 and having no qualifications isn’t the best start for anyone, you have to understand where my life was.
In fact, it saved me from where I could have been, because I had a little person to take care of – I wanted to prove that I could be a good mother and that someone would finally love me as much as I deserved to be loved, and that’s what the pregnancy was for me.
Angela Rayner
Ryan made Angela a grandmother in 2017, at age 37, and called herself “Grangela.”
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Opposition leader: Sir Keir Starmer
Deputy Leader of the Opposition: Angela Rayner
Shadow Chancellor: Raquel Reeves
Shadow Secretary of Foreign Affairs: David Lammy
Shadow Home Secretary: Yvette Cooper
Shadow Health Secretary: Wes Street
Shadow Education Secretary: Bridget Phillipson
Shadow Energy Secretary: Ed Miliband
In February 2022, Rayner told Sunday Mirror her children needed panic buttons and a police escort after she received a threat from a stranger who warned: “I know where your children are.”
Does Angela Rayner have a partner?
Since splitting from Mark in 2020, it was reported that Angela was in a relationship with Labor peer Sam Tarry.
They reunited in the summer of 2022, before splitting in 2023.
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