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Angela Rayner stands down over stamp duty row

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Rayner’s departure is deeply damaging to prime minister who had initially stood by her Angela Rayner has stood down as housing secretary and deputy prime minister after an investigation by the government’s ethics adviser into her underpayment of stamp duty on her £800,000 seaside flat. Rayner’s…
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News video: Keir Starmer backs Angela Rayner over property tax row

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The prime minister Sir Keir Starmer told MPs he was “very proud to sit alongside” Angela Rayner after she admitted she underpaid stamp duty on a property she bought and had referred herself to the independent ethics adviser. The housing secretary has been under intense pressure over her tax...

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