Is Angela Rayner on resignation watch?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Angela Rayner broke cover today - just before PMQs - to give an interview to Sky News in which she admitted she may have made a mistake on the tax she paid for her seaside property. The details are complicated - and involved both her special needs son and her divorce - but was it tax evasion (illegal) or tax avoidance (not illegal)?
And will her political future rest on the answer?
Later, we’re discussing Graham Linehan , Lucy Connolly, JD Vance and freedom of speech in the UK.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.8 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.4 | I remember when the Prime Minister said the tax evasion is a criminal offence and should be treated as all of the fraud. |
| 0:19.4 | If he had a backbone, he would sack her. |
| 0:21.6 | That's Kemi Badock at Prime Minister's Questions this lunchtime. Talking about Angela Rainer, who |
| 0:27.7 | in a bombshell interview, has admitted that she made an error on her taxes and says she's devastated. |
| 0:35.4 | The question is, was it tax evasion or tax avoidance? |
| 0:41.2 | One is illegal, one is not. |
| 0:44.0 | And that, of course, raises the even bigger question |
| 0:47.0 | for Kirstama and this government on day three of the Great Reset, |
| 0:53.4 | Can She Survive? |
| 0:55.9 | Welcome to the Newsagents. |
| 1:02.0 | The Newsagents. |
| 1:03.5 | It's John. |
| 1:04.2 | It's Emily. |
| 1:04.7 | And the old Scottish phrase for Angela Rainer's position is that her coat hangs by a shookly peg. In other words, |
| 1:13.1 | there is some doubt now over her future as a result of the admission that she underpaid on the |
| 1:22.5 | property tax on her home that she bought in Hove in Sussex, where previously her government department |
| 1:30.8 | was saying everything was in order and as it should have been. Yeah, she's given an interview to |
| 1:36.4 | Beth Rigby today on Sky News after days of pretty intense speculation about her tax arrangements and whether she underpaid tax |
| 1:47.0 | and whether she underpaid tax deliberately. And she admitted, and I have to say this came as |
| 1:53.3 | quite a shot, we didn't think that we'd be talking about this today, but she admitted that she |
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