Others must be held to account too, and they will be

If there is any ambiguity over the verdict, then the deputy prime minister’s future will depend on voters’ feelings towards her, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The former Deputy Prime Minister has made her party and her Government less popular and less electable

Labour’s working-class hero brought authenticity and candour to Parliament, but became the party’s biggest liability

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

Frustration among deputy PM’s allies that after surviving waves of stories, tax row gave her opponents an open goal

Northerner whose emotional openness was an electoral asset eventually had to follow advice she had given to Tory rivals and quit

The outlet’s reporting on the former deputy prime minister has pointedly focused on her humble background

Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley speak to Richard Tice, Sarah Pochin and Jim Davidson at Reform’s conference as Angela Rayner steps down

Angela Rayner and those closest to her believe she has been betrayed by Keir Starmer and her departure followed a months long ‘get Angela’ campaign

The deputy prime minister’s resignation closes one chapter with dignity. But the contest to replace her threatens to reopen Labour’s old divisions

Plus: A Reform voter has doubts; sinister ID cards; hands-on policing; against brutalism; brandy trick; and when Fred Trueman met Ted Hughes

Full text of Angela Rayner’s letter to the prime minister, Keir Starmer’s reply, and the response by the PM’s independent ethics adviser

Others must be held to account too, and they will be