Labour's deputy leader has branded the story a 'stream of smears', but the Conservatives will be keeping the pressure on to reveal more details, and Labour will have to decide whether to bow to that pressure.
The details of this row, now rumbling on for over a month, are familiar - but the pressure is escalating. Angela Rayner bought a council house in Vicarage Road, Stockport, under right-to-buy for £79,000 in 2007 and sold it in March 2015, shortly before she became an MP, for £127,500. In 2010, she married Mark Rayner and they had two children.
She wasn't Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the Labour Party, she was a care worker. These rules are very complicated.' He points out that mistakes can be remedied with HMRC within four years so it's now out of time - although she could choose to pay money back if found to owe anything.
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