Labour Party latest: Rayner rallies Labour conference as Starmer stresses growth plan - BBC News
"A council house changed my life," she tells the audience in Liverpool as she outlines housing policy.
There was plenty of policy in Angela Rayner’s speech to Labour conference. Not necessarily new policy, but the packed conference hall gave a rapturous welcome all the same to her promises to build new houses, ban no-fault evictions and abolish zero hours contracts.

But Rayner is not just shadow levelling up secretary, she is also Labour’s deputy leader - having been separately elected to the position by party members on the same day Sir Keir Starmer became leader.

At times the pair have had a somewhat fractious relationship, but in his recent reshuffle, Starmer confirmed that if he becomes prime minister he would hand Rayner the title of deputy prime minister.

And today’s speech reinforced that they are now bound together as a political unit. Beyond the specifics of her departmental brief, Rayner offered up a broad-bush rallying cry for party members at what may well be their last gathering before the general election.

Rayner repeatedly referred to the position she wants of deputy prime minister, using that title to advance her argument about the importance of electoral victory.

Her policy agenda, she stressed, “can only be completed with Labour in power.”