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Starmer has repeatedly declined to say whether he would sack Rayner, his deputy, if his independent ethics watchdog rules against her

Angela Rayner’s seaside flat in Hove has been vandalised with “tax evader” graffiti, after the deputy prime minister revealed that she had failed to pay enough stamp duty on the property.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The United States government tracks the likelihood of nuclear war on a 1-5 scale called “DEFCON” (DEFCON 1 means Armageddon is imminent). Did you know that somewhat more parochially, the British government tracks social class on the “National Statistics Socio-economic Classification”, or NS-SEC?

Angela Rayner tearfully admits underpaying stamp duty on her £800k Hove flat and refers herself to ethics watchdog. Tories demand her resignation as pressure mounts on the Deputy PM.

Deputy PM reveals details of family situation and discusses legal advice she says she received over purchase of Hove flat