PMQs: Rayner defended as Badenoch flops
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch faced off in the first Prime Minister’s Questions following summer recess. With the date of the Budget announced that morning, the economy was expected to dominate – which it did, to the surprise of most MPs, who expected Badenoch to attack over the Angela Rayner tax row. The deputy prime minister had admitted that morning she underpaid stamp duty on her flat in Hove. The leader of the opposition did question Starmer on it initially, but as political editor Tim Shipman says she more than missed an open goal. Tim joins Isabel Hardman and Lucy Dunn to discuss how damaging the row is for Rayner – and how damaging PMQs was for Badenoch.
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| 0:00.0 | As a coffee out shots listener, you will be all too familiar with the headlines that have dominated the news cycle in the past month. |
| 0:06.5 | Trump, tariffs, trade wars, stock market crashes and general economic instability. |
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| 0:46.9 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots. |
| 0:49.3 | I'm Lucy Dunn and today I'm joined by Tim Shipman and Isabel Hardman. |
| 0:53.3 | At midday, parliamentarians attended the first Prime Minister's questions back after summer recess. |
| 0:58.7 | Just before the session began, however, we heard quite an extraordinary statement from Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rainer, |
| 1:04.9 | who has admitted that she did not pay stamp duty on her whole flat due to following inaccurate legal advice, |
| 1:09.7 | and she even admitted that she'd considered resigning over the matter. PMQ's then opened with a pretty spirited defence of Rainer, |
| 1:15.0 | and we can hear a clip of that here. |
| 1:16.6 | The Deputy Prime Minister has referred herself to the ethics advisor. She has admitted she |
| 1:22.0 | underpaid tax, so why is she still in office? But there is not just a crisis at the very top of his cabinet, Mr. Speaker. |
| 1:29.3 | There is a crisis brewing for the whole country. |
| 1:33.3 | When was the last time the cost of government borrowing was so high? |
| 1:37.3 | In relation to the Deputy Prime Minister, she has explained her personal circumstances in detail. |
| 1:42.3 | She's gone over and above in setting out the details, |
| 1:46.7 | including Mr. Speaker yesterday afternoon, asking a court to lift a confidentiality order in relation |
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