Rayner Under Pressure After Admitting to Underpaying Tax
Novara Live
Novara Media
4.8 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has admitted to underpaying £40,000 in stamp duty, but says she won’t resign.
Xi Jinping has thrown a massive military parade in Beijing, Ed Balls is on the attack against Zack Polanski, and Graham Linehan has been ordered to stop tweeting after his arrest by the Metropolitan Police.
With Michael Walker, Barry Malone and William Hurst.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
| 0:11.6 | To become one, go to Navaramedia.com forward slash support. |
| 0:17.9 | Welcome to Navarra Live. I'm Michael Walker. I'm doing it again this week by independent journalist Barry Malone. |
| 0:24.1 | And he's worked as editor at Al Jazeera. Roitters correspondent in Africa in the Middle East. Now writes the newsletter on Substat called Proximities. |
| 0:31.3 | And welcome back. How are you doing? |
| 0:32.9 | Hi, Michael. Yeah, good. I could do without such a soggy day in London, but otherwise well. Yeah, thanks for having me back. |
| 0:40.1 | No, pleasure having you on. We mentioned last week, we're going to try and make it a tradition |
| 0:45.0 | and when we get Barry on because his substack proximities is about international stories which are |
| 0:49.5 | undercovered. And we are, when we get him, I'm going to try and sort of cover one each show. So today we're |
| 0:55.8 | going to talk about a potential war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. And we're talking about some of |
| 1:00.9 | the context there. And Barry has lived in Ethiopia for five years and covered the region |
| 1:05.6 | extensively. So that will be really, really interesting. Also tonight, and we'll be discussing |
| 1:10.7 | Xi Jinping, showing off the |
| 1:12.8 | strength of China's armed forces with a massive military parade in Beijing. Ed Balls, someone of |
| 1:20.2 | slightly lower world historical importance, has grilled Green Party leader, Zach Polanski on Good Morning |
| 1:25.3 | Britain, and Graham Linehan has been ordered to stop tweeting following his arrest by the Metropolitan Police. |
| 1:33.6 | In a way, that's the people pay for applications that stop them tweeting, and he's got it for free from the Met. |
| 1:39.4 | If you'd like to support our work, you can sign up at Navaramedia.com forward slash support as ever. |
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| 1:47.7 | Or you can tweet us on the hashtag Navarra Live. |
| 1:50.5 | Our first story is about Angela Rainer because the deputy prime minister, Angela Rainer, |
| 1:55.0 | has today admitted underpaying £40,000 in stamp duty. |
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