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Rishi Sunak’s assault on Angela Rayner over tax affairs spectacularly backfires at PMQs

Rishi Sunak was left humiliated at Prime Minister’s Questions this afternoon, after attempting to assault Labour’s Deputy chief Angela Rayner over her tax affairs, with Keir Starmer accusing the billionaire Prime Minister of ‘smearing a working class girl’.

Throughout a heated alternate, Sunak tried to make use of the police investigation into Rayner’s tax affairs as a deflection technique. Better Manchester Police is trying into claims Rayner might have damaged electoral regulation within the early 2010s.

The MP for Ashton-Below-Lyne was registered on the electoral roll at her Stockport council home from 2007 till 2015 and says this was her precept property.

Her husband was listed at one other tackle round a mile away. Tory critics have claimed that she might have damaged electoral regulation by declaring her own residence, Vicarage Highway, to be her essential residence slightly than her then husband’s dwelling and have additionally alleged that she might owe capital positive factors tax on the 2015 sale of her Stockport dwelling. Nevertheless, Rayner has insisted that she has achieved nothing unsuitable and has obtained authorized recommendation that no guidelines have been damaged.

She has additionally pledged to step down as deputy chief of the Labour celebration if a police investigation finds she has dedicated against the law.

Labour chief Keir Starmer launched a staunch defence of Rayner this afternoon.

Starmer started PMQs with a query about Liz Truss’s new ebook, which launched this week and for which she has been conducting interviews, during which she seeks guilty everybody else for her disastrous financial insurance policies that resulted in her being booted from workplace.

Starmer highlighted how working persons are nonetheless paying the value for her actions, and stated: “I’m privileged to be the proud proprietor of a replica of the previous prime minister’s new ebook.

“It’s a uncommon unsigned copy. It’s the solely unsigned copy.

“It’s fairly the learn. She claims the Tory Get together’s disastrous kamikaze finances that triggered chaos for tens of millions was – her phrases – ‘the happiest second of her premiership’.

“Has the prime minister met anybody with a mortgage who agrees?”

Sunak replied: “All I might say is he must spend a bit much less time studying that ebook and a bit extra time studying the deputy chief’s (Angela Rayner) tax recommendation.”

In response, Sir Keir stated: “We’ve received a billionaire prime minister… each of whose households have used schemes to keep away from tens of millions of kilos of tax, smearing a working class girl.”

Basit Mahmood is editor of Left Foot Ahead

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