The Latest Breaking News from Hove

If there is any ambiguity over the verdict, then the deputy prime minister’s future will depend on voters’ feelings towards her, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

The conveyancer used by the Deputy Prime Minister to purchase her Hove flat said it did not give advice on trust and tax matters.

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?