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Angela Rayner Resigns, David Lammy New Deputy PM

Novara Live

Novara Media

Politics, Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.8577 Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Angela Rayner has resigned as Deputy Prime Minister.

Plus: Reform UK conference has begun; and the Chinese are unhappy with the EU.

With Michael Walker and Aaron Bastani.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.6

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0:17.7

Welcome to Navaralive.

0:19.1

Big news day today.

0:20.1

Angela Raina has resigned. I. David Lammy is the new deputy

0:23.9

prime minister and there will be a leadership election for the new deputy leader in the Labour Party

0:30.0

which could throw Kirstalmers government into even more chaos than it has currently been in.

0:35.4

Oh, by the way, the Reform Party conference has also begun today.

0:40.4

Somewhat ironic.

0:41.2

They've made the news, well, they've made the political weather, let's say, all summer

0:46.0

until their conference comes around, and then they get pushed way down the news bulletins.

0:52.2

And the Chinese are unhappy with the EU, And they've got a point this time.

0:57.5

The EU's top diplomat has been denigrating Chinese efforts in the Second World War, which is probably

1:03.9

not so smart. I'll be joined by Aaron Bastani in a moment. If you'd like to support our work,

1:10.7

you can sign up at Navarramedia.com forward slash support. Let's go straight into that first story. Angela Rainer has resigned as Deputy Prime Minister, Housing Minister and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. And that was after Keir Stama's ethics advisor found that she did not heed the caution in legal advice she received

1:29.2

when buying a flat. Now, if you remember, this row all concerned, or this row all concerned,

1:35.0

sorry, Angela Rainer underpaying stamp duty on a property in Hove. When she bought that flat,

1:41.7

she only paid the stamp duty required if it was her first and only home, when in fact, she also had a family home in Manchester.

1:51.8

Now, that all looked initially, incredibly dodgy. As I said, on Wednesday, to my mind, it looked more understandable once she explained her complicated family circumstances.

2:03.6

In 2020, my son had an award and a trust was set up by the court to deal with his finances as part of that award, with a legal trustee And in 2023, when me and my husband divorced, the decision was because that home was adapted

2:24.3

to support my son who has lifelong disabilities as a result of that injury that occurred to him,

2:32.3

that trust was set up and they decided that they would take on the property so that

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