44 m. ago Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty fiasco as Starmer’s cabinet reshuffle begins: UK Politics live

Keir Starmer is set to begin a major cabinet reshuffle after saying he was 'very sad' Rayner's time in government had come to an end

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50 m. ago Keir Starmer to reshuffle his frontbench in wake of Angela Rayner resignation: Live updates

LIVE UPDATES: Follow the latest as Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner awaits the outcome of an ethics report into her tax affairs after she admitted underpaying stamp duty.

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72 m. ago Live updates as Angela Rayner resigns and Keir Starmer forced to make major changes

The deputy prime minister has resigned from the UK Government after a row over stamp duty on second home

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94 m. ago Angela Rayner's resignation over tax scandal throws government into fresh disarray and sets up potential top party role for leftwing Starmer critic

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to carry out a wide reshuffle of his top team after Ms Rayner, 45, quit as deputy prime minister and housing secretary.

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1 hour ago Angela Rayner resigns LIVE: Deputy PM forced to quit over stamp duty scandal as Starmer to carry out reshuffle

Sir Keir Starmer set to announce reshuffle after Angela Rayner’s dramatic departure

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1 hour ago Angela Rayner: The ‘teenage mum from a council estate’ who became deputy PM

Former housing secretary once described herself as ‘John Prescott in a skirt’.

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1 hour ago DAN HODGES: Angela Rayner's resignation is a political catastrophe for Keir Starmer. His nightmare has truly begun

Angela Rayner's resignation is a personal tragedy for her. But it's a political catastrophe for Keir Starmer.

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1 hour ago She was the authentic voice of the snarling Left, but as we now know, the Red Queen was a woman of gluttonous appetites with little between the ears: QUENTIN LETTS

Amid a Cabinet of dull mumblers, Angela Rayner was the eye-flashing exception. Sir Keir Starmer praised her 'working-class background' but actually that wasn't so rare, even in the modern Labour party.

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2 h. ago Angela Rayner's resignation letter in full, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer response

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has stood down from government

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2 h. ago The golden rule of Trump and Farage’s free speech crusade: they’re allowed to chat rubbish – you’re not | Marina Hyde

The Reform leader has been in the US, bemoaning Britain’s ‘awful authoritarian situation’. It’s a shame about his party’s own anti-media huff back homeSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and morePop quiz. Of whom did Donald Trump say admiringly: “I also learned that he loves his country very much”? And: “He wrote me beautiful letters. And they are great letters. We fell in love”?If you answered “Nigel Farage”, then I’m sorry. The Reform UK leader might have spent this pre-party conference week in his happy place – lodged several feet up the US presidential colon – and rhetorically demanding of US lawmakers: “At what point did [the UK] become North Korea?” But those Trump compliments were in fact previously made about Kim Jong-un, the dictator of well, you know the rest.Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer issues response as Angela Rayner resigns as Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Minister

The Prime Minister wrote that he was "very sad" to see Angela Rayner resign as Deputy Prime Minister

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2 h. ago 'Eerie similarities' between China and rise of Nazi Germany, says former minister

Victory day parade was attended by more than 20 world leaders, including Russia's Vladimir Putin and North Korea's Kim Jong-Un

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2 h. ago Angela Rayner's resignation letter to Sir Keir Starmer in full

The Deputy Prime Minister and Ashton-under-Lyne said she 'took full responsibility' after admitting not paying enough stamp duty on a second home

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2 h. ago Angela Rayner QUITS complaining of 'strain on my family' after sleaze report finds she DID breach ministerial code with property dealings

Angela Rayner is understood to be leaving her post as Deputy PM after Sir Laurie Magnus delivered his verdict to Keir Starmer.

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2 h. ago Angela Rayner's resignation letter in full as she quits for breaching code

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has left Government following an investigation into her tax affairs by Sir Keir Starmer’s independent standards adviser. Ethics watchdog Sir Laurie Magnus said Angela Rayner had “acted with integrity and with a dedicated and exemplary commitment to public service” but concluded she breached the ministerial code over her tax affairs.

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3 h. ago Angela Rayner resigns after failing to pay enough stamp duty on house sale

Keir Starmer's Government has been plunged into crisis after losing one of its most high-profile members.

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3 h. ago Angela Rayner quits over stamp duty tax row in huge blow to Keir Starmer's government

The Deputy Prime Minister was battling to save her political future after saying she recieved incorrect legal advice, which meant she could have saved around £40,000

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3 h. ago Angela Rayner quits after sleaze probe into stamp duty tax row in blow to Starmer

Angela Rayner has lost her job as Deputy Prime Minister after a tax evasion row boiled over this week, and despite Keir Starmer backing her yesterday, she has now gone

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3 h. ago Angela Rayner latest LIVE: Deputy PM faces crunch tax probe verdict as investment minister 'set to quit'

investment minister ‘set to quit’ as Keir Starmer is rumoured to be planning reshuffle

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5 h. ago Richard Tice stumbles in grilling over Keir Starmer and Kim Jong Un comparison

Richard Tice fumbled his words as he was grilled on why Sir Keir Starmer was like Kim Jong Un after both the deputy Reform UK leader and Nigel Farage compared the UK to North Korea.

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