Angela Rayner has been accused of plotting a 'chicken run' to a safer seat on the south coast amid fears she could lose to Reform UK in the next election.
Recent polling suggests the Deputy Prime Minister's seat of Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, which she has held since 2015, could fall to Nigel Farage's party.
To save her political career, there have been suggestions she may abandon the North for the much more secure seat of Hove, having recently added an £800,000 seaside apartment there to increase her burgeoning property empire.
The Housing Secretary's new seaside pad is in addition to the £650,000 house she owns in her constituency and a three-bedroom grace-and-favour flat in Admiralty House, Whitehall.
It comes as the Mail revealed tonight how her property portfolio has been expanded with the help of a wealth protection firm, adding to the furore surrounding her housing affairs.
