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I’ve interviewed Angela Rayner a number of times and know her to be a robust operator with a very thick skin.
But on Wednesday morning, as she walked into our interview to admit that she had underpaid tax on her Hove home and explain the personal circumstances around that, she was visibly upset.
For days, this story has run on and now we have a better picture of why. The deputy prime minister told me she had to ask for court permission to release details of her domestic arrangements to give the background to the tax trouble she now finds herself in. And on Wednesday, she revealed all.
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It is a complicated and personal story, but in essence, her family had a trust set up in 2020 to provide for her son who has life long disabilities to ensure that he would be provided for and protected.
When she divorced her husband in 2023, some of the interest in the family home was transferred to the trust and then in 2025, she sold her remaining interest in the property to her teenage son’s trust.
She then used the proceeds from that to buy the new property in Hove, using the money from her family home in Ashton to…
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