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On Wednesday the 3rd of September, MPs were back for the first Prime Minister's questions since the summer break,

but it was the financial affairs of the Deputy Prime Minister minister which were attracting much of the attention.

Angela Rainer arrived in the Commons Chamber a couple of minutes before midday, taking up her usual spot on the front bench.

And if she looked a little more subdued than usual, it wasn't hard to guess why.

Just minutes before she'd given an interview admitting she hadn't paid enough

stamp duty when she'd bought a seaside flat in East Sussex. The Conservative leader,

Kemi Badenock, jumped straight in. The Deputy Prime Minister has referred herself to the ethics

advisor. She has admitted she underpaid tax. So why is she still in office?

Angela Raina bought an £800,000 flat in Hove. She paid the standard rate of stamp duty,

but now accepts she should have paid the higher second home rate. The deputy prime minister

said she wasn't trying to dodge the reported £40,000 bill and had taken legal advice.

She also insisted she doesn't own the family home in Greater Manchester, which is held in trust for her disabled son.

Labour MPs cheered as Sakea Stama launched a vigorous defence.

She has now referred herself to the independent advisor.

That is the right thing to do.

But I can be clear, I am very proud to sit alongside a deputy prime minister who is building

1.5 million homes, who has been the biggest upgrade to workers' rights from a generation,

and who's come from a working class background to be deputy prime minister of this country.

Kemi Badernock wasn't persuaded.

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