Can Rayner survive tax row?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
24 hours after Angela Rayner admitted underpaying tax, the pressure remains on the deputy prime minister as Westminster now waits the outcome of the probe by the Prime Minister’s standards adviser. The Spectator’s political editor Tim Shipman and the Sunday Times’s Whitehall editor Gabriel Pogrund join Patrick Gibbons to discuss whether Rayner can retain her briefs. As Gabriel points out, regardless of the outcome of the ethics probe, Rayner was seen as Labour’s ‘sleaze-buster in chief’. So how damaging is this to ‘brand Ang’?
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| 0:47.1 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm Patrick Gibbons and today I'm joined by a political editor, Tim Shipman, and Gabriel Pogrand of the Sunday Times. Now, Tim, it's been 24 hours since Rainer's |
| 0:59.3 | statement about underpaying her stamp duty on her flat and hove, but it's the splash across all |
| 1:04.9 | the papers this morning. How much pressure is building on the deputy prime minister? |
| 1:08.3 | I mean, a considerable amount, you know, with the laws of the rhythms of political |
| 1:14.2 | sort of crises, I mean, Alistair Campbell once said, if you have 11 days of it, you're toast |
| 1:19.6 | and it's a problem. |
| 1:20.8 | I mean, in a sense, this story's been running for months, and it's only really now caught |
| 1:24.3 | fire, because Andrew Aron has been denying lots of the details and |
| 1:28.2 | several news outlets have been covering this and pursuing it. But now it's really, it's gone from |
| 1:34.3 | a sort of niche interest of the journalists who were pursuing the details to now a sort of |
| 1:41.4 | full-blown political crisis that everyone has to pay attention to. |
| 1:45.2 | And, you know, these things are always instructive of how governments respond, how |
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