Could a row over a council house bring down Angela Rayner?
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🗓️ 24 April 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Angela Rayna in serious trouble? This is the overnight flight from London Heath Road to Beijing. |
| 0:27.0 | Flight time 11 hours, 237 passengers on board. |
| 0:34.0 | And one murderer. |
| 0:37.0 | There's no escape. |
| 0:39.0 | At 35,000 feet, |
| 0:45.0 | feet, red eye. |
| 0:47.0 | Stream now on ITVX. Okay, so, um, yeah, my name's Helen Pied. I'm out and about in stock, |
| 0:59.0 | okay, so, um, yeah, my name's Helen Pied, I'm out and about in Stopport in Greater Manchester, where |
| 1:05.6 | Labour's deputy leader grew up. |
| 1:07.7 | I think she's great. |
| 1:08.6 | I think she's really inspirational. |
| 1:10.0 | Obviously, she's a local woman as well, so we're all dead proud of her in Stapport. |
| 1:14.0 | Angela Rayna has been in the news a lot of late after senior conservatives started to ask |
| 1:20.0 | questions about her domestic arrangements and her tax affairs. |
| 1:23.6 | It's going on now, it's lingered on. It's up to her now to really come clean. |
| 1:29.7 | It all centres around the profit she made, selling her old council house in Stopport back in 2015 |
| 1:35.1 | just before she became a labor MP. Should she have paid tax on it? Was she really |
| 1:41.0 | living there at the time? |
| 1:43.0 | Has she even committed electoral fraud? |
| 1:46.6 | The police are now investigating, and today Angela Rayna may well come under fire in parliament |
| 1:52.2 | as she stands in for Kie Stormer at Prime Minister's |
| 1:54.4 | questions. But outside Westminster, does anyone even care? |
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