Findings of inquiry into stamp duty paid on Hove flat crucial to any leadership bid
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Angela Rayner has been cleared by HMRC of deliberate wrongdoing or carelessness over her tax affairs, the Guardian reported, paving the way for a potential leadership bid as Keir Starmer’s grip on power unravels.
When the then deputy prime minister bought a flat in Hove with her partner in April 2025, she paid the standard rate of stamp duty – £30,000 – on the £800,000 transaction.
That purchase was part-funded by the proceeds of selling her 25% share in the family home, in her constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne, to a trust set up in the name of her disabled son. The trust had been created by court order years earlier, after her son was awarded damages due to a medical incident when he was a baby.
