Angela Rayner

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

And that is because we haven't invested in industry, we've not invested in infrastructure and we've not created those opportunities.

So house prices have gone up because we've not dealt with the supply side.

Those jobs have not come and that investment's not come because we haven't got the infrastructure to deliver it.

The government hasn't played a role.

I believe in an active state to help the private sector.

What then does the future look like?

So I agree with you about in terms of do people feel like that becomes a lost generation?

And that was my concern and why I'm impatient for the change.

And I make no apologies of that, of what we said we were going to do.

And I've described it as we need to put rocket boosters up our manifesto because that's where you get the confidence.

That's where you drive the investment and the change.

Yeah, well...

So I just think, you know, that's where you get the change.

And the reason why I'm so passionate about that is my mum was a lost generation.

She was illiterate.

She wasn't of a generation where she could be a single parent if she needed to be.

And, you know, there were things that we got that helped us, like we had council houses, so I was never going to be evicted from my home and things like that, which I feel passionate that gave me opportunities to

But I think my mum was lost to the system.

And that really upsets me because my mum could have been so much more than she was.

But within a couple of generations, we've corrected that.

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