"If an individual wants to buy a property, whether that individual is Angela Rayner or anybody else, they are entirely within their rights to spend their money as they choose Angela Rayner, as an adult with a salary, is able to make choices about how she spends her own money. So long as she's followed all of the rules and requirements as a part of that, then I don't think there's anything more."
"Angela Rayner has been clear that she followed all the rules and requirements of her, that she has followed the rules completely. That is her position, that she has done everything that has been asked of her."
Bridget Phillipson defended Angela Rayner over accusations that the deputy prime minister avoided payments when buying an £800,000 flat in Hove. Rayner is reported to have avoided £40,000 in stamp duty by listing the Hove flat as her only property and to have removed her name from the deed of her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency home to avoid higher stamp duty on what would have been a second home. Rayner is also reported to have listed the constituency home as her primary residence, which avoided around £2,000 in council tax on a government-owned London flat. Conservatives called the moves hypocritical given Rayner’s roles.
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