The council house row Angela Rayner can't shake
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The Times
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🗓️ 16 April 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Police are investigating whether Labour’s deputy leader broke “any offences”, including under electoral law, after Tory MPs alleged that she may have given false information about her main residence - an ex council house she purchased - a decade ago. Rayner, who has promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime, said she “followed the rules at all times”. But how damaging could this row be to her - and to her party.
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| 1:23.0 | Angela Rayna thought that would be it. |
| 1:26.0 | A row about the 2015 sale of her Stockport Council house closed, |
| 1:31.0 | but it really isn't. I think the double standards have been extraordinary. |
| 1:36.0 | Andra Rayna herself has spent her political career calling people out for exactly the thing |
| 1:42.0 | that she seems to be doing now. |
| 1:44.0 | Well, I think this is just very straightforward and there's a very important legal point here. |
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