Well, well, well. Less than 24 hours after Keir Starmer tried to brush off questions about Angela Rayner, it turns out she is now the subject of a formal police investigation. Greater Manchester Police have this morning confirmed it is looking into claims that the Labour deputy leader may have mispaid capital gains tax over the 2015 sale of a property in Manchester.
Rayner has denied wrongdoing but she has refused to publish tax advice which she claims exonerates her – and has not shown it directly to Sir Keir Starmer. GMP re-examined an earlier decision not to investigate after a complaint by Tory Bury MP James Daly. The Times reported yesterday that more than a dozen of Rayner’s former neighbours had yet to be contacted by police.
In a statement, GMP confirmed that ‘We’re investigating whether any offences have been committed. This follows a reassessment of the information provided to us by Mr Daly.’ It’s worth remembering of course that even before the Metropolitan Police had concluded its investigation into partygate, she tweeted a call for Boris Johnson to resign. She wrote on 25 January 2022 that:
Boris Johnson’s Downing Street is under police investigation, how on earth can he think he can stay on as Prime Minister?
Let’s hope Labour HQ is updating those lines to take eh…
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