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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Hannah Al-Othman North of England correspondent

‘She should get sacked’: constituents vent anger in Rayner stamp duty row

Sheila Knox and Maureen Mills
Maureen Mills, right, with her friend Sheila Knox: ‘I’ve only just about got one house, and that’s a bungalow.’ Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

“I’ve got to pay my taxes and so has she, it’s as simple as that,” Andrew Davies, 57, said, a common view on the streets of Angela Rayner’s Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.

On Wednesday, the deputy prime minister acknowledged for the first time that she had mistakenly not paid the correct amount of stamp duty when she bought a flat in Hove earlier this year.

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