The Deputy Prime Minister has been dubbed 'Three Pads Rayner' after it emerged she had shelled out £800,000 on a luxury flat in Hove, East Sussex.

The Housing Secretary's new 'holiday home' in Hove is in addition to the £650,000 house she owns in her constituency and a three-bedroom grace-and-favour flat in Admiralty House.

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