Angela Rayner (অ্যাঞ্জেলা রেনার) is a British politician and trade unionist who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government from July 2024 to September 2025. She was Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 2020 to 2025 and is Labour and Co-operative Member of Parliament (MP) for Ashton-under-Lyne since 2015. Ideologically she identifies as a socialist and as being part of Labour's soft left.

Rayner was born and raised in Stockport, where she attended the comprehensive Avondale School. She left school aged 16 whilst pregnant and without any qualifications. She later trained in social care at Stockport College and worked for the local council as a care worker. She eventually became a trade union representative within Unison, during which time she joined the Labour Party. She was selected to contest Ashton‑under‑Lyne in 2014 and was elected for the seat at the 2015 general election.

Angela Bowen was born on 28 March 1980 in Stockport, Greater Manchester. She grew up in poverty on a council estate with her older brother and younger sister and says she could have been taken into care. Her mother's bipolar disorder impacted the family; Rayner has stated: "When I was young, we didn't have books because my mother could not read or write." Her website describes how," or the most part, I was raised by my grandma who worked at three jobs to put food on the table and didn't stop until the day she died – three days before her 65th birthday."

Rayner attended Avondale High School in Stockport. At age 16 she became pregnant, and left school without obtaining any qualifications. She later studied part-time at Stockport College, a school of further education learning British Sign Language, and gaining a National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ) Level 2 in social care. Rayner has spoken about how the Sure Start centres of the New Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown assisted her as a young mother with little support.

Between 1995 and 2005 Rayner was in a relationship with Neil Batty. In 1996, aged 16, she gave birth to their son, Ryan. Recalling her experience of being a teenage mother on a council estate, she said that Ryan's birth "actually saved me from where I could have been, because I had a little person to look after." When Ryan's partner had a daughter in November 2017, Rayner became a grandmother at age 37, giving herself the nickname "Grangela."

In 2010 she married Mark Rayner, a Unison official, with whom she had two more sons, Charlie and Jimmy. Rayner says that the care her son Charlie received after his premature birth demonstrated the importance of the NHS to her. Rayner and her husband separated in 2020. In the summer of 2022 journalists began reporting that Rayner was in a relationship with Labour MP Sam Tarry. The relationship ended in 2023, and then resumed.

In a 2022 interview, Rayner recounted that, up to 2010, she lost over 6 stone (84 lb; 38 kg) in weight, due to a year-long training programme. She then took out a bank loan of £5,600 for cosmetic surgery on her 30th birthday.

In October 2021 Rayner reported receiving a number of death threats and abusive messages. The police arrested a 52-year-old man in Halifax. She cancelled a number of meetings with her constituents due to fears for her own safety. Later, a 36-year-old man from Cambridgeshire was prosecuted after sending her a threatening email. The man pleaded guilty in court to sending the email and was sentenced to 15 weeks in prison, suspended for 18 months. Earlier in March 2019, Rayner said that she had fitted panic buttons at her home after rape and death threats were sent to her.