Angela Rayner is back together with her ‘soulmate’ boyfriend: Labour’s deputy PM makes on-off relationship with ex-MP Sam Tarry official… after he was sacked by Keir Starmer

Labour’s Angela Rayner is back together with her ‘soulmate’ boyfriend and former MP Sam Tarry, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

The Deputy Prime Minister has finally made her controversial on-again, off-again relationship official – three years after it was first made public – having declared the Corbynista Mr Tarry as her partner in the register of ministers’ interests.

But their rekindled love may come as less happy news for Sir Keir Starmer, who sacked Mr Tarry as a shadow transport minister in July 2022 after he gave an unauthorised TV interview from a picket line during rail strikes.

And the pair came under fresh scrutiny last year when it emerged Ms Rayner, 44, had failed to declare that she took Mr Tarry, 42, on a holiday to New York which was paid for by the multimillionaire Labour Party donor Lord Alli. 

The couple spent five days over New Year in Lord Alli’s £2.5million Manhattan apartment.

Ms Rayner previously told a fundraising event that Mr Tarry ‘is one of the most kind-hearted, amazing individuals I know and he’s also my soulmate’. 

Their relationship was unwittingly made public at the start of 2022 when Mr Tarry, who was at that point married to a paediatric consultant, was pictured leaving Ms Rayner’s flat one morning with her. 

He was shown with untied shoelaces and what appeared to be a toothbrush in his coat pocket.

Ms Rayner previously told a fundraising event that Mr Tarry ‘is one of the most kind-hearted, amazing individuals I know and he’s also my soulmate’

Mr Tarry was ousted as the Ilford South MP at the last election after a bitter local battle which saw him deselected as a Labour candidate

Then in November 2023 it was reported the pair had split, but it is not clear when they got back together.

Ms Rayner did not declare the relationship in the November 2024 register of interests.

Having been ousted as the Ilford South MP at the last election after a bitter local battle which saw him deselected as a Labour candidate, clues as to what Mr Tarry’s next venture is have been kept to a minimum. 

That was until Ms Rayner publicly declared last month that her partner is ‘a public affairs consultant’ who ‘advises the Night Time Industry Association’. 

Mr Tarry was previously a vice chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Night Time Economy and recent online posts by the Night Time Industry Association (NTIA) have thanked the former politician for working ‘tirelessly behind the scenes’.

The NTIA is an influential organisation which represents and campaigns on behalf of bars and nightclubs. In recent months it has been calling for government intervention to bolster nightlife and the night-time economy.

The Labour Party declined to comment.