Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner is at the centre of an ongoing row about her former living arrangements. FactCheck takes a look.
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner is at the centre of an ongoing row about her former living arrangements, with the police now investigating whether she broke electoral law.Ms Rayner is facing questions over where she was living before she sold her house in Stockport in 2015.The deputy Labour leader was registered as living at that house on the electoral roll until the sale in 2015.
So she’s also faced scrutiny over whether she should have paid capital gains tax on the profits if this property was no longer her main residence.“estimate” the bill would be “no more than £3,500”. Though he also spelled out a few scenarios where Ms Rayner would end up paying no further tax at all.
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