Andrew Grice: McDonnell and Corbyn want to leave Labour in the hands of one of their own

Any new party leader will need to give a different answer to the question: is Labour’s priority ideological purity, or winning power?

The shadow education secretary is likely to be in the mix for the party’s leadership after Corbyn’s resignation. Rayner was brought up on a council estate, left her local comprehensive school with no qualifications, and gave birth to her first son, Ryan, at the age of 16. She rose through the ranks of the trade union movement to become the most senior elected official of Unison before being elected to her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency in 2015.

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