Angela Rayner

I'm the only member of the house, who at age 16, and pregnant, was told in no uncertain terms, I'd never amount to anything. ”

From 13/14 I was always hanging about with older boys. Boys in school used to call me names. But outside older boys would pay me attention because I looked older for my age. I was going to clubs from 14. I wanted to be loved. ”

There was a council house waiting for me when I had Ryan, there was a welfare state. I never put into the system before I took out, I was on income support before I'd even paid a penny of tax. ”

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that. ”

If our tax system, as a whole, is progressive, then those with the broadest shoulders will make the greatest contribution, as it should be. ”

Private schools are gaming the system. There is way too much state money going in, and people who go to private schools seem to be given a head start for all of the top jobs and that's something that needs to be dealt with as well. ”

I don't want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don't want to fix children once the system's broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that - because the system should protect and nurture, and not damage our children. ”

Working-class students more often lack the advice, guidance and support needed to navigate the tricky application process, whereas their wealthy peers at top public schools have admissions tutors to help their students game the system. ”

We need a sustainable system of student finance that promotes opportunity, encourages aspiration, increases social mobility and is governed by fairness. But all the Tories can offer is unsustainable, mounting debt, punishing students for wanting an education. And discouraging thousands of young people from climbing the ladder to a better life. ”

Regardless of what tribe people think they're in, we don't work in isolation as human beings, we want to do what's right. ”