PM praises former deputy as the ‘living embodiment of social mobility’

Starmer says he is ‘proud’ to sit beside working class woman who became deputy PM after Rayner admits underpaying stamp duty on £800,000 flat

The tax-dodging Deputy Prime Minister is unfit to serve

The Prime Minister said he was ‘proud’ to be sat next to Angela Rayner

Bookmakers are giving odds on her successor as she faces intense pressure to resign

‘Devastated’ Deputy PM clings on despite facing investigation and Labour calls for her resignation

The deputy prime minister’s future depends on the outcome of an ethics probe into her tax affairs

The former Deputy Prime Minister has made her party and her Government less popular and less electable

Labour’s working-class hero brought authenticity and candour to Parliament, but became the party’s biggest liability

Rayner’s departure is deeply damaging to prime minister who had initially stood by her

Angela Rayner is understood to be leaving her post as Deputy PM after Sir Laurie Magnus delivered his verdict to Keir Starmer.

“I take full responsibility for this error," she said in her resignation letter to Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Rayner is the eighth and the most senior, ministerial departure from Starmer’s team and the most damaging yet.

The deputy prime minister has faced mounting pressure to stand down over recent days after admitting she underpaid stamp duty on the flat she bought earlier this year

She describes serving at the highest level of government as ‘the honour of my life’

The Deputy PM quit days after admitting she had underpaid tax on her new £800,000 flat in Hove

Angela Rayner admitted that she did not pay enough tax on her purchase of an apartment in Hove, on England’s south coast, earlier this summer. 'I take full responsibility for this…

PM praises former deputy as the ‘living embodiment of social mobility’

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