We need more politicians like Angela Rayner | Letters

Dr Robin C Richmond and Linda Rhead respond to the deputy prime minister’s resignation

The fact that Angela Rayner has described her journey from “a teenage mum from a council estate” to the highest levels of government as being “the honour of my life” is so sad, and a scandalous indictment of our country (Crisis engulfs Labour as Angela Rayner is forced to step down as deputy PM, 5 September).

Privilege and inequality exclude the majority of ordinary people from entering, let alone achieving, influential positions in politics, the judiciary, media, business and increasingly in sport and theatre.