Angela Rayner

I went to my local Sure Start centre, and they put me on a parenting course. I learned things that might seem simple - that it was important to hug and love your child, and read to them. This might seem obvious, but it wasn't to me at the time.

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.

Free school meals for all children, no matter what their background, will improve the education and health of our children.

I think technical education and vocational skills and having a trade mean something.

To give every child a fair chance to succeed, we need to give them the best possible start in life. For far too many that isn't happening.