Angela Rayner is under pressure to explain her property arrangements after she bought an £800,000 flat in Hove, far from her constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne.
Most of the criticism has centred on the complicated tax arrangements surrounding the purchase, though the deputy prime minister’s allies insist she has done nothing wrong and she is not under investigation by the prime minister’s adviser on ministerial standards.
Rayner has not said anything yet about the row, which Downing Street said on Monday was partly because a court had ruled some information could not be disclosed. But here are five questions she will face when she does speak publicly about it.
