The former Deputy PM is set to sit down with Michael Gove in the first episode of her new venture.
Angela Rayner is set to launch a podcast in an attempt to broaden her appeal for a potential Labour leadership contest, according to reports.
In the pilot episode of the podcast, named Beyond the Bubble, Ms Rayner will interview former minister Lord Gove.
Both Lord Gove and Ms Rayner have served as Housing Secretaries – and the episode will have a focus on housing policy.
They may also be able to bond over how they backed laws to give leaseholders and renters more rights while in office.
The Times reported that Ms Rayner will also interview others across the country about housing in the episode produced by Global, which owns radio station Capital, LBC and Classic FM.
The former minister has previously said the idea of MPs holding second jobs was “beyond shameful”.
In 2023, she said on social media: “Being an MP isn’t a second job. It is the job.”
She has also made £100,000 from speeches and advances on her memoirs, which are to be released later this year.
Her memoirs, reportedly ghost-written, are set to track her rise from growing up in poverty on a council estate in Stockport and leaving school without qualifications to becoming the Deputy Prime Minister, and the fallout from her role and exit.
It remains unclear whether the podcast has been commissioned for a full series by Global.
Ms Rayner resigned from her role as Deputy PM after she breached the ministerial code by underpaying stamp duty on a home.
Then just days ago, she sent leadership speculation skyrocketing as she claimed Labour’s immigration reforms were “un-British” and said the Government was “running out of time”.
But in the face of its imminent launch, Sir Keir Starmer has backed his former deputy – who he said still had “a lot to offer” despite her resignation in disgrace.
He told Sky News: “She’s got a lot to offer, and I obviously had a conversation with her on the day that she had to resign, and I regret that she had to resign. It was the right thing to do, but I regret that she had to do it.
“And I said to her, that her contribution to the Labour Government and the Labour movement was by no means over.
“I do expect to see her playing a leading role in this Labour Government.”
The results of the local elections – widely expected to herald a Labour blowout – may lead to a potential leadership challenge, and Ms Rayner is seen as a successor to the Prime Minister.
Sir Keir himself has laid the groundwork for a poor party performance, describing the locals as “very much sort of mid-term elections”, the type that incumbent governments historically lose.
But he said he did not plan to resign after May 7.
He said: “I intend to be judged at the next election on what I’ve delivered for the country.”
