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This Is Why

Angela Rayner tax claims: Smear, story or both?

This Is Why

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner is facing questions about whether she paid enough tax on a house sale, almost a decade ago.   
  
She denies any wrongdoing and has been backed by the party's leader Sir Keir Starmer, with some colleagues claiming she's being "smeared".   
  
On the Sky News Daily, Mark Austin unpicks exactly what Angela Rayner is accused of and discusses if the allegations are really in the public interest with Sky's political correspondent Rob Powell.   
  
They also talk about how important Ms Rayner is to Labour's election ambitions with polling expert Scarlett Maguire.   

Producers: Soila Apparicio, Emma Rae Woodhouse 
Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku 
Editor: Paul Stanworth

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:06.1

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0:07.7

2012.

0:08.5

I'm Beth Rigby Sky's political editor.

0:11.0

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0:18.7

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0:21.2

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0:26.5

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0:35.8

Hello, this is Mark Austin, sitting in on this Sky News Daily. On this episode, Angela Raina,

0:41.9

the woman who could be deputy prime minister by the end of the year and those questions about her

0:47.3

tax affairs. We'll explain what's being claimed, at least, about her apparently failing to pay

0:53.5

capital gains tax on a house sale almost a

0:56.3

decade ago. She insists she's taken expert advice, which shows that she's done nothing wrong.

1:01.8

But also, we'll ask if this is something that's really in the public interest, or is it more of a smear,

1:08.3

as her Labour colleague David Lammy has claimed.

1:12.0

We'll also look at how important Angela Rainer is to Labour's election ambitions

1:15.9

with polling expert Scarlett Maguire.

1:18.7

But let's start with Sky News political correspondent Rob Powell.

1:26.1

So Rob, Rob, help us out here. It's quite complicated. What is she meant to have done? How much money is at stake? What's involved? Yeah, the detail is complicated, but actually the sort of broad premise of the story is a kind of classic of the genre over honesty and whether Angela Raina has been telling the truth about her

1:44.9

living arrangements a decade ago. The revelations, the allegations were first made in a book,

1:50.1

biography, an unauthorised biography of Angela Raina, published by the former Conservative donor

1:54.7

anyway, Lord Ashcroft, a couple of months ago. What he is alleging is that she had a property

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