Is Angela Rayner really in trouble?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 8 April 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Police are re-examining claims Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner may have broken electoral law more than a decade ago by failing to pay a capital gains tax worth around £2000. Is there a real story here? Is it about impropriety? Class? Big money vs. small money? And who’s behind it?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.4 | This is a global player original podcast. Andrew Rayne has been asked no end of questions about this. |
| 0:16.7 | She's answered them all. She said she's very happy to answer any further questions from the police or from any of the authorities. |
| 0:23.8 | I don't need to see the legal advice. My team has seen it. But I will say this, that on the day that the A&E figures, people waiting more than 24 hours in A&E, we now know that they are 10 times as high as they were five years ago. |
| 0:37.3 | The idea that the Tories want to be focusing on what Andrea and Rainer, |
| 0:41.8 | how much time she spent with her ex-husband 10 years ago, |
| 0:45.2 | I can tell you here, at this hospital, nobody but nobody is interested in that. |
| 0:49.5 | They're very, very interested in what are you going to do about the A&A problem caused by this government. |
| 0:55.5 | That was Kirstama, defending his deputy Angela Rainer's decision not to publish her tax advice |
| 1:03.3 | on whether or not she should have paid capital gains tax when she sold her council house in Stockport |
| 1:10.1 | about a decade ago. |
| 1:11.9 | She had bought that house. She'd made nearly 50,000 pounds on the sale, and it has perhaps |
| 1:17.2 | slightly bizarrely become controversial, following the publication of a biography from a conservative |
| 1:23.8 | peer on Angela Raina herself. So on today's show, we're going to be talking |
| 1:28.1 | you through the details of that story, where it's come from, and crucially, whether or not, |
| 1:33.6 | in fact, she's done anything wrong at all. Welcome to the news agents. The news agents. |
| 1:43.9 | It's Emily. It's Emily. |
| 1:44.8 | It's Lewis. |
| 1:45.4 | And let's start by explaining exactly what this story or non-story is about. |
| 1:51.5 | I guess at the heart of the allegations are questions over the deputy leaders' living arrangements in, what, the early 2010s. |
| 2:00.5 | Because it was claimed that Angela Rainer |
| 2:02.6 | bought her former council house in Stockport, Vicarage Road, with a 25% discount in 2007, |
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