Is Angela Rayner unsackable?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 April 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson.
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| 0:22.0 | Hello and welcome to Coffey House shots. I'm James Heel and I'm joined today by Katie Bors and Fraser Nelson. Now Katie this morning, Greater Manchester Police, have announced that following a reassessment of the case, they've decided to open a formal police investigation into Angela Rayna over claims about her former living allowance. |
| 0:37.0 | Katie, talk us about this story. |
| 0:39.0 | So I think this is clearly a development and I think it does make the allegations more serious than perhaps what they have been in recent weeks, which is the Tories just trying to like throw something at the wall and see what sticks, distract from the Labour's local election campaign and try and really neuter or limit |
| 0:56.5 | the abilities of one of their you know strongest media performers from the labour |
| 1:00.7 | respective Angela Rayna after the one going out there on the attack |
| 1:03.8 | now what this all relates to is two properties one owned by herself back when she |
| 1:10.4 | was married to her her Len husband Mark Rayna and one owned by Mark Rayna. |
| 1:14.0 | Hers was on Vicarage Road. If you were from Stockport, these addresses might mean more |
| 1:18.9 | to you than they do to us. And the second one her husband's was on Llanders Lane. |
| 1:23.0 | It all comes down to whether Ancherina was correct to say her primary residence |
| 1:28.0 | and her main residence during this period was Vicarage Road |
| 1:32.0 | and this is just before she became an MP. The accusation |
| 1:35.8 | which first came about in Lord Ashcroft's book, The Red Queen, the unauthorized biographer |
| 1:40.5 | of Anjorena is that she was really living at Landis Lane and therefore when it |
| 1:46.7 | comes to the sale of her vicarage road former council house property in 2015 she could |
| 1:52.1 | have been liable to pay capital gains tax which she's not pay and |
| 1:55.6 | also she could be in breach of electoral law because she was registered to vote at |
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