59 m. ago Angela Rayner's resignation triggers a Labour purge: Panicking Starmer axes Cabinet ministers in bloody 'Phase 3' reshuffle after she quit for failing to pay tax

Keir Starmer is taking a knife to his team just days after he tried to launch a Labour 'Phase 2' following a torrid summer and consistently dire polls.

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62 m. ago Ministers sacked in cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner resigns over stamp duty fiasco: UK Politics live

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

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65 m. ago Keir Starmer sacks Cabinet ministers as PM reshuffles 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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65 m. ago Angela Rayner's real offence was being a working class woman in power

'British politics just became a little less northern, a little less working class, and a little less female - and that loss should worry us all', writes Rob Williams.

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68 m. ago Starmer cabinet reshuffle: Who is in and who is out as PM overhauls his top team

Prime minister has launched a major reshuffle after Angela Rayner’s resignation

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71 m. ago Angela Rayner resignation LIVE: Starmer reshuffles cabinet after Rayner resigns over underpaying stamp duty

The Deputy Prime Minister has faced mounting pressure to stand down after admitting she underpaid stamp duty on a flat she bought in Hove

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72 m. ago How will Angela Rayner's replacement be decided? Here's how the election process works

Here is how Angela Rayner’s replacement will be decided, following her resignation from government.

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92 m. ago ‘She’s let us all down’ – voters react in Rayner constituency

The MP left Government after Sir Keir Starmer’s ethics adviser found she had breached the ministerial code over her underpayment of stamp duty.

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94 m. ago Angela Rayner resigns LIVE: Reshuffle under way as Deputy PM forced to quit over stamp duty scandal

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

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1 hour ago Lucy Powell MP sacked as Leader of House of Commons in reshuffle

It follows the resignation of Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner

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1 hour ago Farage falsely accuses Rayner of avoiding paying council tax after deputy PM resigns

Nigel Farage mistakenly said Angela Rayner had avoided paying £40,000 in council tax after the deputy prime minister resigned on Friday, 5 September.

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1 hour ago Was Angela Rayner right to resign over stamp duty tax row? Vote in our poll

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned from government after the PM’s ethics adviser concluded that she had breached the ministerial code - and we've asked Mirror readers to have their say on the decision

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1 hour 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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2 h. ago 'It's happening': Nigel Farage says he could be PM as early as 2027 as he slams Labour as 'not fit to govern' in wake of Angela Rayner's resignation

The Reform leader used his keynote address at his party's confernece in Birmingham to twist the knife into Labour's wounds following the Deputy Prime Minister's exit.

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2 h. 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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2 h. ago Farage predicts 2027 general election in warning over Labour ‘rift’

Nigel Farage said he thinks there is "every chance now of a general election happening in 2027" as he addressed Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham shortly after Angela Rayner resigned on Friday, 5 September.

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2 h. ago Rayner’s resignation shows this government is worse than the last, Farage declares in Reform conference speech

Angela Rayner sensationally quit as deputy prime minister and housing secretary just one hour before Nigel Farage took to the stage in Birmingham

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2 h. 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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2 h. ago How Labour will elect a new deputy leader now Angela Rayner has quit

The party now finds itself with the prospect of having to elect a new deputy, a contest which could see Labour’s factional divides aired publicly.

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2 h. 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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