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Angela Rayner steps down over stamp duty row

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The Independent UK

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings

Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner’s lawyers deny giving her tax advice on flat in fresh blow to deputy PM in stamp duty storm

Firm that handled purchase of her £800,000 Hove flat say 'we did not and never have given tax or trust advice' as Sir Keir Starmer declines to rule out sacking his deputy

Evening Standard

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Angela Rayner’s lawyers insist they did not give tax advice blamed for stamp-duty scandal

‘We’re being made scapegoats – we’re not qualified to give advice on trust and tax matters,’ say conveyancers

The Independent UK

It is time for Angela Rayner to be moved on

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The deputy prime minister has had too many property tangles for her to continue in the role of housing secretary. In a forthcoming ministerial reshuffle, she should expect to lose that portfolio – though not necessarily suffer a humiliating demotion

The Independent UK

Voices: ‘The judge in this case will be HMRC’: Readers react as Angela Rayner admits tax mistake

YOUR VIEWS: Our community is divided over the deputy prime minister’s tax error. While some have insisted she knew what she was doing and should resign, others have defended her for relying on professional advice and correcting the mistake

The Independent UK

Rayner’s future in balance as firm used to buy flat in stamp duty row says it did not offer tax advice

Report from prime minister’s standards adviser, Laurie Magnus, is due today

The Guardian - UK

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Angela Rayner: Key events in stamp duty row

Here the PA news agency looks at the timeline of how Ms Rayner’s tax affairs came to light.

Evening Standard

The key events in stamp duty saga that led to Angela Rayner’s resignation

The deputy PM is leaving government over unpaid tax. Here’s how we got here

The Independent UK

PM and Cabinet rally round Rayner amid property tax row

The Prime Minister and Chancellor Rachel Reeves gave the Deputy Prime Minister their ‘full confidence’.

Evening Standard

Why has Angela Rayner resigned? The key takeaways after tax scandal investigation

The deputy prime minister may have saved as much as £40,000 in tax

The Independent UK

‘Tax evader’: Vandals target Angela Rayner’s Hove flat in wake of stamp duty scandal

A spokesperson for Angela Rayner decried the graffiti, which include the word ‘b***h’, as ‘unjustifiable and beyond the pale’

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner: How working-class hero who rose through Labour ranks became mired in tax scandal

The deputy prime minister dramatically resigned on Friday after a probe into her tax affairs

The Independent UK

Rayner lawyers ‘made scapegoats’ and ‘did not give her tax advice’ on flat at centre of row: UK politics live

Angela Rayner said she was given inaccurate legal advice that led her to underpay tax when buying a flat in Hove in May

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Ministers defend Rayner in tax row as fresh property purchase details emerge

Sources close to the Deputy Prime Minister said she was given three separate pieces of legal advice before buying an £800,000 property in Hove.

Evening Standard

Angela Rayner 'used some of her disabled son's NHS compensation to buy second home'

Angela Rayner has admitted she did not pay enough tax when buying a sea front flat but has insisted she made a ‘mistake’

The Independent UK

Pressure mounts on deputy PM as Conservatives demand stamp duty probe

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Evening Standard

Angela Rayner battles for political future after tax bill admission

The Deputy Prime Minister has referred herself to both the Government’s independent ethics adviser and to HMRC.

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Evening Standard

Tories call for HMRC to open investigation into Angela Rayner over stamp duty

Ms Rayner’s explanation that she was given inaccurate legal advice ‘cannot withstand scrutiny’, Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake said.

The Independent UK

Tories call for HMRC investigation into Angela Rayner stamp duty scandal

Rayner’s explanation that she was given inaccurate legal advice ‘cannot withstand scrutiny’, Tory chairman Kevin Hollinrake said

The National (Scotland)

Angela Rayner's future in the balance as she admits underpaying tax on second home

THE Deputy Prime Minister has admitted to underpaying stamp duty amid a growing controversy over her tax affairs.

The Independent UK

Rayner fights for political future as she admits: I did not pay enough tax

The deputy PM admits she underpaid up to £40,000 in stamp duty on second home but denies she dodged tax, as PM backs her

The Guardian - UK

Football’s Financial Shame: The Story of the V11 review – so moving you’ll pity these poor footballers

This gripping documentary follows early Premier League footballers who lost it all following investment advice that went wrong. It perfectly captures the melancholy of being an ex-pro

The Guardian - UK

Angela Rayner could face additional stamp duty bill over Hove flat, tax experts warn

Deputy PM may have to pay tens of thousands of pounds more if tax officials judge she paid incorrect rate on property purchase

The Independent UK

Angela Rayner unable to explain housing arrangements ‘due to court order’, Downing Street says

It comes amid continued criticism of the deputy prime minister’s purchase of an £800,000 flat in Hove

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