Serving as both deputy prime minister and housing secretary, Angela Rayner’s resignation would cause a serious headache for the prime minister. But who are the likely candidates to replace her?

The Deputy Prime Minister is among the bookies' favourites to succeed Sir Keir Starmer as Labour's approval ratings continue to slump under his leadership.

In opposition Angela Rayner berated rule-breaking Tory ministers, saying it was ‘one rule for them and another for everybody else’. Now her job is on the line over her own…

Bookmakers are giving odds on her successor as she faces intense pressure to resign

She describes serving at the highest level of government as ‘the honour of my life’

PM praises former deputy as the ‘living embodiment of social mobility’