Angela Rayner spotted leaving her London home with her boyfriend
Pictured: Angela Rayner, 41, is spotted leaving her London home early in the morning with her married boyfriend Sam Tarry, 39, the Corbynite MP who ran her campaign to become Labour deputy leader
- Sam Tarry, 39, llford South MP ran Rayner’s campaign to become deputy leader
- They were pictured by the Sun on Sunday leaving her taxpayer-funded home
- Tarry elected in 2019 with backing of Corbynite grassroots group Momentum
- Ms Rayner separated from her husband of ten years Mark Rayner in 2020
Angela Rayner’s romance with fellow Labour MP Sam Tarry went public today after photos emerged of them leaving her London home together.
Ms Rayner, 41, is believed to have become close to the 39-year-old Ilford South MP after he ran her campaign to become Labour’s deputy leader.
And it looked like Mr Tarry had made hurried plans to stay the night since he appeared to have a toothbrush in his coat pocket.
Ms Rayner separated from her husband Mark in 2020 and Mr Tarry, a father of two, is also understood to have now parted from his wife.
They were pictured by the Sun on Sunday leaving her taxpayer-funded home earlier today.
Mr Tarry is something of a rarity, a leftwing Labour MP with a shadow ministerial post, as shadow public transport minister.
He entered Parliament at the 2019 election with the backing of Corbynite grassroots group Momentum, after the previous Labour MP for Ilford South, Mike Gapes, defected to Change UK.
While the pair have been quiet about their relationship, they may have to open up about it in future if Ms Rayner decides to run for the Labour leadership.
Angela Rayner and fellow Labour MP Sam Tarry were spotted leaving her London home together
Ms Rayner, 41, is believed to have become close to the 39-year-old Ilford South MP after he ran her campaign to become Labour’s deputy leader
The pair have been quiet about their relationship, they may have to open up about it in future if Ms Rayner decides to run for the Labour leadership
The MP for Ashton-under-Lyne was elected to Parliament as the Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in 2015 before swiftly rising up the ranks to national prominence.
Ms Rayner was then welcomed to the Labour frontbench under the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and was made shadow education secretary in 2016.
She married Unison official Mark Rayner in 2010 before the pair parted ways in 2020.
The pair share two children together and Mark is also a stepfather to Ms Rayner’s first child Ryan, who she had at the age of 16.
In 2017, Ms Rayner told The Guardian that Mark had ‘brought stability to her life’ and had been willing to step back from his job to take on a ‘good deal of the childcare’ in order to support her career.
The MP proudly welcomed her own granddaughter in 2017 at the age of just 37 with a tweet jokingly referring to herself as ‘Grangela’ after son Ryan became a father to baby Lilith Mae.
She has previously spoken about how becoming pregnant at the age of 16 had ‘saved’ her.
Speaking at a Times Red Box fringe event in 2017, Ms Rayner said: ‘Even though getting pregnant at 16 and having no qualifications is not the best start for anybody, you’ve got to understand that where my life was, it actually saved me from where I potentially could have been.
‘Because I had a little person that I had to look after and I wanted to prove to everybody that I wasn’t the scumbag that they thought I was going to be, and I could be a good mum, and that somebody was finally going to love me as much as I deserved to be loved.
‘And that’s what pregnancy was for me, it saved me.
‘I’m not suggesting that we should advocate it, but to suggest that these young women are just failures and that they’ve got nothing left in their lives, I was really quite cross that actually they couldn’t understand the complex reasons and some of the advantages we can have in terms of changing people’s lives around.
‘And it did for me, and my children are in a much better position than I ever had, and my mum could only have dreamt of having a daughter that got to where I am today.
‘That’s social mobility.’
Mr Tarry, who was Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign mastermind, married Julia Fozard, who works as a paediatrician in Brighton, in 2016.
The pair, who have now parted ways, tied the knot a year after they bought a three-bedroom end-of-terrace home in the seaside town for £548,000.
Earlier this year Mr Tarry said he was ‘delighted’ to have become shadow minister for buses and local transport.
He tweeted: ‘I’ll be working hard to ensure our system is fit for purpose & that significant Govt investment is made to improve national connectivity, level up the North, & expand our greener transport network.
‘A huge thank you to @UKLabour Chair and Deputy Leader @AngelaRayner as I stand down from her team.
‘It was a pleasure to serve and I’m proud of the work I was able to undertake leading on national elections organising and campaigns and helping to rebuild and reconnect our Party.
‘Enormously grateful to Ed_Miliband for asking me to serve as his PPS as I move on to a new brief.
‘His support and guidance during my first year as an MP was invaluable and I look forward to working with him on the @UKLabour front bench to build a radical economic renewal.’
Last week Ms Rayner made clear her designs on Labour’s top job – before pledging her support to Sir Keir Starmer.
The plain-talking Mancunian said it would be ‘an absolute honour’ to enter Downing Street as a former single mum from a council estate.
But she told US broadcaster CNBC she planned to do it as deputy prime minister, with Sir Kier in the top job.
However, she declined to rule out running to replace him as party leader one day, saying: ‘Never say never’.
‘At the moment, I can’t wait to get into number 10 With Keir and be his deputy prime minister as a girl from my background, who grew up on the, you know, a council estate very poor background to left school pregnant at 16, with no qualifications to become deputy prime minister would be an absolute honour,’ she said.
Ms Rayner, who was elected to Parliament as the Labour MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in 2015, married Unison official Mark Rayner (pictured together) in 2010
She separated from her husband Mark in 2020 and Mr Tarry, a father of two, is also understood to have now parted from his wife.
Mr Tarry entered Parliament at the 2019 election with the backing of Corbynite grassroots group Momentum
The plain-talking Mancunian said it would be ‘an absolute honour’ to enter Downing Street as a former single mum from a council estate
But she told US broadcaster CNBC she planned to do it as deputy prime minister, with Sir Kier in the top job.
‘And I never forget the trust that the people of my constituency put in me at the moment. And that’s what spurs me on to keep going. And they deserve better than what they’ve got currently. And I want to keep fighting to get that farther.’
It is not the first time Ms Rayner has talked openly about taking over at the top
Last September she positioned herself as a future leader on the first day of the party conference in Brighton, boasting: ‘If Boris Johnson can bluster his way as PM, I know for an absolute certainty I can do a lot better than that.’
When asked if Keir Starmer was an electable leader she added: ‘I think Kier Starmer has shown that he’s actually the sort of leader that you want to look after your schools, looking after your hospitals, a really measured leader, you know he does take it incredibly seriously.
‘He is a public servant and has been all his life and he comes in there not because he wants to you know big up his ego but actually wants to do the right thing for his children and for people families that are struggling.
‘His mum was an NHS worker who needed the NHS when she had a very serious illness, and he started with a toolmaker, so he comes from a very working class background, and it’s boy done good, you know, and that is the British story, you know.
‘Many working class people in the UK, they might not have gone to university, but they want their children to have the opportunity and care get up because it’s his story.
‘And it’s what happens to him. And he wants that for everyone else. And he wants people to play by the rules.’
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