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Angela Rayner resigns – Today in Focus Extra

Today in Focus

The Guardian

News, Daily News

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff talks through the tax row that brought down the now former deputy prime minister. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0

This afternoon, the fall of Angela Rainer.

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Okay. It came.com.uk.

1:02.5

It came at a moment when Angela Rainer's stock never seemed higher.

1:06.7

The Deputy Prime Minister was well-liked on Labour's backbenchers.

1:11.0

It was her, after all, who had managed the government's climb down on the welfare bill in June,

1:15.9

and she was about to push through the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation.

1:22.6

A teenage mum who'd left school at 16, she stood out in Kirstarmour's cabinet as a rare personality and was openly discussed as a leader in waiting.

1:26.2

Who else could have styled out those photos, vaping on an inflatable kayak this summer,

1:30.7

or sipping a goblet of rosé while wearing a dry robe?

1:34.5

Even right-wing news outlets were calling her iconic.

1:38.3

But now, for Raina the fall.

1:41.0

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Raina has resigned after... At noon today, she resigned after the Prime Minister's Ethics Advisor found that she'd

1:49.3

breached the ministerial code by underpaying £40,000 of stamp duty on a flat in Hove, 260

1:56.0

miles from her Greater Manchester constituency.

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