Angela Rayner

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

I think these are genuine journalistic questions that we should be holding people to account.

They are political questions, but they're questions that we should be holding people to account.

Exactly.

Sums up the inequality that you talked about Alistair before, and that is acute.

It also sums up the rigged system.

That's why I was unapologetic about us creating the industries of the future, because the investment that the state is putting in, huge sums of investment, which

the Chancellor was criticised for, for putting that investment.

I think it's the right thing to do because that's how you drive investment into the industries of the future.

So those jobs are created because those jobs are just not there for the graduates.

And they feel that that system is going to get worse with AI.

We've got to have an active state on how we redistribute because that's going to have a challenge for us.

How do we adapt the workplace?

How do we give people that sense of security that there is a safety net?

Well, student loans, again, I think that, you know, the challenge really is the way in which it's scored.

And this was because when I was shadow education secretary, this was really frustrating for me because a lot of things, if they don't belong to the government, even though it is the government, but your arms length it, it goes off the score chart, right?

But actually, in reality, a lot of it is never going to be repaid or over a period of time, it doesn't exist.

So the way in which the accountancy and treasury scores it makes it really difficult at the moment for us to make big changes.

But we have to do something at the moment, especially for those who do need maintenance allowance, maintenance grants, which I know that's something that we've been working on.

But there are there are challenges that we need to be honest about.

the pragmatism of the reality and then fix it.

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