When Angela Rayner spoke of trying to secure her disabled son’s future, many heard only politics .

Few grasped the truth behind her words: “Family life is rarely straightforward, particularly when dealing with disability, divorce and the complexities of ensuring your children’s long-term security.”

Try telling that to people who haven’t spent years navigating a system designed to be confusing.

I don’t have the glare of Westminster on me, but I do know what it’s like to juggle a career and the hidden, relentless responsibilities of caring for my two neurodivergent children. It takes a resilience most people never see – or understand.

Rayner is protecting her son’s privacy, but there’s another reason, I suspect, that she hasn’t gone into more detail about the realities of her life. And

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