(08-30-2025, 05:10 PM)gortex Wrote: Deputy PM Angela Rayner's decision to buy a second home costing £800,000 raised a few eyebrows with some asking how she could afford such a thing on the money she earns but now it's raising potentially embarrassing questions about why she used a loop hole in the law to deprive the Treasury of £30,000 in second home tax after it emerged that she legally removed her name from the deeds of her first house.
The scumbaggery of this government knows no bounds.
"Do as we say not as we do"
Update.
Deputy PM and Housing secretary Angela Rayner is currently under investigation by the Parliamentary Standards watchdog over the claim she avoided paying £40,000 in tax on her new property , Starmer said today said he is "expecting the result of an investigation into stamp duty paid by Angela Rayner "quickly" so I guess we can guess the result.
Cabinet colleagues have been sent out to TV studios to do a bit of fire fighting but the Tories have called for the inland revenue to investigate.
Angela Rayner in 2022 responding to allegations of Tory tax avoidance.
“every pound hidden in tax havens is a pound lost from the pockets of working families”.
Yeah , 40,000 of them Ange.
