Starmer backs (Deputy Prime Minister) Rayner after she admits underpaying tax

BBC ^ | Sep 4 | BBC

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PM Keir Starmer backs Angela Rayner, his deputy, after she admits not paying enough stamp duty on a property in Hove

"I'm proud to sit alongside her," Starmer says, during a PMQs in which Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls for the housing secretary to be sacked

Earlier, Rayner said she had taken legal advice when purchasing the East Sussex flat in May 2025, which suggested she was liable to pay standard stamp duty

Following "further advice", she said she was "working to resolve the matter and pay what is due" - read the full statement

Outlining a trust set up for her son with special educational needs, and her divorce in 2023, Rayner also said she had referred herself to the standards watchdog - what happens next?

A career-threatening episode, but Labour officials seem to believe Rayner will survive, our chief political correspondent writes

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Jeremy Clarkson pulls no punches with blistering Angela Rayner verdict as Deputy PM quits: 'Taxpayers funded her entire life!'

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I hate to break it to the UK’s taxpayers, but I bet you’re funding her resignation, too...