I’ve at all times recognized that politics modifications lives as a result of it modified mine. The final Labour authorities gave me the instruments I wanted to construct a greater life for me and my younger son, and that’s why I’ve been working relentlessly from day one in authorities to do the identical for the following technology. Day by day I had in workplace, I labored to serve working class communities just like the one which I grew up in, that are too usually missed by these in energy. I’m proud that in each resolution I made, I did it for them. I’d by no means have turn into Deputy Prime Minister if not for the selections taken by the final Labour Authorities, giving me a council home to assist me, Positive Begin to assist increase my children, and the safety of a minimal wage – and I can solely hope that the modifications I made in authorities could have the identical impression for younger women rising up on council estates like I did.
