Sir Keir Starmer was today facing growing calls to sack 'hypocrite' Angela Rayner after she admitted not paying enough stamp duty on her new seaside flat.
The Deputy Prime Minister, dubbed 'Three Pads' Rayner in a row over her trio of homes, said she 'deeply regrets' the error made when purchasing her £800,000 apartment in Hove, East Sussex.
In a tearful TV interview, a 'devastated' Ms Rayner revealed she has referred herself to an ethics watchdog to investigate whether she had broken ministerial rules.
But pressure was growing on Sir Keir to immediately remove Ms Rayner from his Government, in which she also serves as Housing Secretary, rather than wait for the results of the Whitehall probe into her tax blunder.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch called on Sir Keir to show a 'backbone' and sack his Deputy PM as they clashed at Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon.
