Angela Rayner last night faced calls to prove she has been ‘cleared’ by the taxman just in time to join the Labour leadership race.
Labour’s ex-deputy leader declared yesterday that HMRC had absolved her of wrongdoing or carelessness over the purchase of a home in Hove, East Sussex.
She was required to stump up the £40,000 in unpaid stamp duty on the south coast flat but was said to have avoided a fine.
Experts and political rivals said ordinary taxpayers were likely to feel aggrieved as HMRC almost always imposes fines in such cases.
Questions were raised about how the taxman had concluded she had
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