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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Sophie Wingate

Starmer backs Rayner after she admits underpaying stamp duty on seaside flat

The Prime Minister has backed Angela Rayner after she admitted an underpayment of stamp duty on a seaside flat which prompted Opposition calls for her to resign.

Sir Keir Starmer said he was “very proud to sit alongside” his deputy at Wednesday’s Prime Minister’s Questions and added that her move to refer herself to the independent ethics adviser was “the right thing to do”.

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