Once again, it's not the offence but the cover-up. Angela Rayner still stubbornly refuses to publish the evidence that would clear up the whole sorry saga of the two council houses.
Once again, it's not the offence but the cover-up. It's currently impossible to say with certainty which, if any, rules Angela Rayner broke during the period she and her family owned two houses in Stockport – both former council houses purchased under the Tories' pioneering right-to-buy policy.
What the reaction to the political storm buffeting Labour's deputy leader does project, however, is what we can expect when she and her party get their hands on the reins of power in a few months. And it makes for ugly viewing. Angela Rayner has not been clear. Specifically, she has failed to explain or rationalise the bizarre assertion that she was living apart from her husband and children for the first five years of their marriage – staying in a house one-and-a-half miles from the family home.
And they think that as a working-class single mother at the time she was allocated her council house, she's now being targeted because of her upbringing and ability to defy the political odds. Justifications which are as threadbare as they are self-serving. Rayner also headed the pack that smelled blood over the non-dom status of the Prime Minister's Indian-born wife. 'A fish rots from the head. It is the Prime Minister's responsibility to bring this debacle to a close,' she declared, before sending a detailed letter demanding answers about Akshata Murty's tax affairs to the independent adviser on ministerial interests.
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