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The outrage over the Deputy PM’s stamp duty avoidance is fuelled by misogyny and elitism, but she’s broken no rules

The tax-dodging Deputy Prime Minister is unfit to serve

In opposition Angela Rayner berated rule-breaking Tory ministers, saying it was ‘one rule for them and another for everybody else’. Now her job is on the line over her own…

Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley ask if the Deputy PM can survive her admission of underpaying tax

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Angela Rayner said she was given inaccurate legal advice that led her to underpay tax when buying a flat in Hove in May

Deputy PM steps down after Telegraph reveals she underpaid stamp duty on new £800,000 seaside flat

The deputy prime minister has resigned after the PM’s ethics adviser found she breached the ministerial code over her underpayment of stamp duty

Northerner whose emotional openness was an electoral asset eventually had to follow advice she had given to Tory rivals and quit