Enraged or Engaged? Angela Rayner on The Gen Z Story
5/11/20261 hr 8 min
Former Deputy Prime Minister, Angela Rayner, joins Alastair Campbell and Vicky Spratt to discuss the Gen Z story as she sees it. Listen to hear her thoughts on the success of The Green Party, the allure of characters like Gary Stevenson and Zack Polanski, the hopelessness of young people, the danger of binary politics and short-term thinking, as well as her push for the government to reconnect with Gen Z and empower leaders of the future. She also listens and responds directly to some of your experiences sent to us via voice note. To hear episode one and two of the Gen Z Story, sign up at therestispolitics.com and if you're a student, sign up with your student email address to get a year of TRIP Plus for just £20. For analysis on this interview and more insights into the Gen Z Story series, sign up to our free newsletter. Instagram: @restispolitics Twitter: @restispolitics Email: therestispolitics@goalhanger.com
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First 90 secondsAlastair Campbell· Host0:00
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Angela Rayner· Guest0:11
People feel like no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you try, the system is rigged against you, and it's not working in your favor. So if you're working or you're going to university, you're trying to do everything right to get a good job, to raise a family one day, hopefully, to get your own home, they feel it's almost impossible, and, and they're correct to feel that way.
Speaker 20:32
We know our birthrate is falling. It's hit the lowest level since the Second World War. That's gonna be a big problem for our welfare state. I was looking at it on a graph earlier. What we spend is going like this. What we've got coming in is going like that. What, what then does the future look like?
Alastair Campbell· Host0:47
I went to a pretty normal school and then went to Cambridge. Never at any point during the time I was at Cambridge was I even worrying about what I was gonna do in the future.
Angela Rayner· Guest0:56
The secret is, is they've got power. They've got power in their communities, in their activism, in their demands, and we should be doing everything we can to show them that we're on their side.
Speaker 21:08
Welcome back to The Gen Z Story with me, Vicki Spratt. Episode three this week, and it is a must-listen. We have got none other than former deputy prime minister and housing secretary, Angela Rayner. Now, this interview with Angela was done a couple of weeks ago at the Spotify studios in Central London. Alastair