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It's not even a week since Parliament returned from the summer break, but already Labour have got themselves in another mess.

I also welcome the fact that the Deputy Prime Minister has referred herself to the ethics advisor.

She has admitted she underpaid tax. So why is she still in office?

Meanwhile, Reform UK is still setting the agenda. The government is at pains to compete with Nigel Farage,

and ministers are being asked about how many flags they own.

We actually have Union Jack Bunting on our garden shed at the moment. I've got St George's flags.

I've got St George's bunting. I've got the Yorkshire Rose bunting as well. I've got...

So what the hell is all this about? And in this weird battle of Britain, who's going to win? I'm John Harris, and you're listening to Politics with the UK for the Guardian. Joining me today are the Guardian columnist Gabby Hinsliff and our policy editor, new job title, Keir and Stacey. Hello to you both. Hello, John. Hi, right, we're going to start with the news, freshly broken news, that Angela Rainer, the

deputy prime minister, has referred herself to the standards watchdog after acknowledging that

she did underpay stamp duty on a new home in Hove. The context for this is the fact that

the budget we now know is going to be on the 26th November.

There's been a steady trickle of news through the last bit of the summer about the prospect of Rachel Reeves in that budget looking at property taxation and stamp duty in particular.

So in both senses, this perhaps is not a very good look.

It's potentially very, very bad news for the government.

Kieran, tell us a bit more.

Yeah, well, this all relates to a flat which Angela Rainer bought in... potentially very, very bad news for the government. Kieran, tell us a bit more.

Yeah, well, this all relates to a flat which Angela Raina bought in May of this year,

in Hove, as you say, for £800,000. Now, when she bought that flat, she declared for stamp duty purposes that it was her only property. And the reason she did that was she does

actually have a house up in her

constituency of Ashlander Line in Greater Manchester, but she had actually sold the last remaining

bit of equity in that house into a trust, the beneficiaries of which were her children. So she

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