Angela Rayner

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524 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 11 May

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The Rest Is Politics · Enraged or Engaged? Angela Rayner on The Gen Z Story · 11 May 2026 podcast

The generation before me, they chose to be renters if they wanted to be renters.

They chose to buy if they wanted to buy.

They had a choice.

If I'm working, I had a choice to decide what I wanted to be.

You see, what I love about that is that point I was making before about they've got power and they've got power in their communities, in their activism, in their demands, and we should be empowering them more and we should be doing everything we can to show them that we're on their side.

And at the moment, I think that we are doing work on that, but we're failing.

to be able to take that forward in a way that they know I'm on their side.

Yeah.

But that's because, like, we're doing things on, you know, we're investing in defence, we're investing in renewable energy, we're bringing the new industries forward, but we've deferred all of these things.

We didn't even build reservoirs.

We need reservoirs so that we can then build the houses, so we can build the data centres, so we can build the infrastructure that we desperately need.

We failed to do that.

We failed to invest in the grid that will link up the businesses.

We've had a failed industrial strategy for the last 14 years.

So we've put off decisions or we've not been agile enough to make decisions, which has slowed down the pace of us being able to give opportunities for people.

Now, that doesn't happen overnight, but we started to put the investment in and start to make the difference for people.

But I can understand how if you've gone to university or you've done everything right and then you end up, as you see it, in a situation where you're never going to be out of that, as I call it, that poverty trap.

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