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Hello, I'm Sean Curran and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4.

For Wednesday the 3rd of September, when the Prime Minister stood by Angela Rainer

after she admitted not paying enough stamp duty on a flat.

I am very proud to sit alongside a deputy prime minister who is building 1.5 million homes.

But the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenock, says the Deputy Prime Minister should go.

I remember when the Prime Minister said the tax evasion is a criminal offence

and should be treated as all of the

fraud. If he had a backbone, he would sack her. Also tonight, the Justice Secretary says the

government is looking at how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied. We're not wanting

to play, as you might say, populist politics with it. We go in from a position of

believers in what the convention is trying to achieve. But first, the Deputy Prime Minister

Angela Rainer has admitted she didn't pay enough stamp duty on a home she bought in East Sussex.

The housing secretary said she was given incorrect legal advice

and had referred herself to the government's independent ethics advisor. Angela Raina's statement

came after a week of scrutiny and just minutes before the first Prime Minister's questions

since Parliament returned from its summer break. The Conservative leader, Kemi Bajnokock said there was a crisis at the top of Sir Kier Stama's cabinet

and welcomed Angela Rainer's decision to refer herself to the advisor on ministerial interests.

She has admitted she underpaid tax, so why is she still in office?

Flanked by Angela Rainer and the Chancellor Rachel Reeves, Kirstama defended his deputy

and said she had explained her personal circumstances in detail.

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