US EditionAngela Rayner quits as Deputy Prime Minister after tax controversy
Angela Rayner resigned after admitting a £40,000 stamp duty underpayment due to misclassifying her Hove flat, breaching the ministerial code, triggering an ethics investigation.
- Angela Rayner resigned from her positions as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary after admitting to underpaying stamp duty on a property in Hove, which breached the ministerial code.
- Kemi Badenoch criticized the Labour government, claiming there is 'one rule for them, another for everyone else.'
- In her resignation, Rayner stated she 'deeply regrets' not seeking additional tax advice, taking full responsibility for her underpayment.
- Following Rayner's resignation, Sir Keir Starmer initiated a reshuffle in his government.
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James Cleverly: With the Labour eyeing our homes as a piggy bank, of course Rayner had to go
Sir James Cleverly is shadow secretary of state for housing communities and local government, former Home Secretary and Foreign Secretary, and MP for Braintree. Starmer had to get rid of Angela Rayner. With the property tax-hikes he and Reeves have planned Rayner’s failure to pay the right Stamp Duty made her resignation inevitable. Starmer knew that every tax rise at the budget would trigger the words “except for Rayner!” from our benches. Pus…
The British government is going through a new political crisis following the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner, who left office after acknowledging that she made a fiscal error by failing to pay taxes properly on the purchase of a property.The scandal has shaken the Labour Party and further weakened Keir Starmer's government, which was already facing several internal and external challenges.Rayner, a key figure in the left wing …
UK DPM resigns over tax mistake
British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned on Friday after saying she deeply regretted her mistake of underpaying property tax on a new home, in a damaging blow for her boss, Prime Minister Keir Starmer. After Britain's independent adviser ruled that she had breached the ministerial code by failing to pay the correct tax, there was little Starmer could do to protect his deputy, saying he was "very sad to be losing you from the governme…
The British head of government, Keir Starmer, in difficulty on many fronts, reworked his executive on Friday, September 5, following the resignation of his deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, who was forced to leave office after a tax error.
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