A Tory MP has alleged the Labour deputy leader made false declarations about where she lived on the electoral register.
Police could reopen a probe into claims that Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner may have broken electoral law over information she gave about her living situation a decade ago.
He was told a detective chief inspector was reassessing the force’s decision not to open an investigation, according to a Conservative Party source. The unauthorised biography alleges that the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne bought her former council house, in Vicarage Road in Stockport, Greater Manchester, with a 25% discount in 2007 under the right-to-buy scheme.Government guidance says that a tenant can apply to buy their council home through the right-to-buy scheme if it is their “only or main home”.
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