Property News · February 18, 2012

A working life: the union official


Starting as a home help, Angela Rayner was soon a Unison steward, badgering bosses and hobnobbing with prime ministers, she tells Mark KingAngela Rayner peers down at me from newspaper clippings on the wall: there she is with Gordon Brown at a Labour party conference in 2007; that’s her smiling with Ed Miliband at the leadership contest in 2010; and again, holding a placard at a TUC rally in March 2011.As a full-time Unison representative at Stockport council, the photos of Rayner mixing with Labour high-fliers past and present are perhaps to be expected. What is more revealing is the framed photo of a serene Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested by the police on 13 February 1908. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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