Did Angela Rayner Break The Law?

Newscast

BBC

Politics, News

4.4 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Today, we look at the police launching an investigation into Angela Rayner over the accusation she broke electoral law.

The deputy leader of the Labour Party is accused of giving false information about her main residence in a row about who lived in her former council house. In a statement, she said she was "completely confident I've followed the rules at all times". Newsnight political editor Nick Watt joins Adam to discuss.

And after a week where we have heard from some former Post Office bosses. News and special projects reporter for The Times Tom Witherow brings us up to date on what’s been happening. Plus we hear from a former sub-postmistress, Seema Misra, after she gets a personal apology from a former managing director of the Post Office.

You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Adam Fleming. It was made by Jack Maclaren with Sam McLaren and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Hannah Montgomery. The assistant editor is Chris Gray. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham.

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1:19.4	Hello, it's Adam in the studio, and shortly we're going to catch up with the goings on at the post office inquiry because there have been quite a lot of them this week. But first of all on Friday morning Greater Manchester Police announced they were reopening their inquiry into Labour's deputy leader
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