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Angela Rayner says questions about tax affairs were 'manufactured' to 'smear her'

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The Ashton-under-Lyne MP has faced questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax on the sale of her former council house.

Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner has said a controversy about her tax affairs was “manufactured” in an attempt to smear her.

“I’ve been very clear there’s no rules broken,” she told BBC’s Newsnight programme. “They tried to manufacture a police investigation. A book by former Conservative Party deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft, Red Queen? The Unauthorised Biography of Angela Rayner, suggested that she failed to properly declare her main residency.

Government guidance says tenants can apply to buy their council home through the right-to-buy scheme if it is their “only or main home”.

 

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