Until this week, Angela Rayner was considered to be one of the most powerful women in Britain, a deputy prime minister who was widely tipped to be a future candidate for the top job in politics.
A self-described "proper working-class" woman, Rayner grew up in poverty and left school without any qualifications at 16.
She became the first female MP for the Greater Manchester seat of Ashton-under-Lyne in 2015, before entering high office in the wake of last year's landslide election victory
It was a remarkable journey.
But Rayner's extraordinary rise to the apex of British politics with the Labour Party has culminated in an equally spectacular fall.
