Angela Rayner challenges Conservative critics of her tax affairs

Angela Rayner has challenged the Conservatives to issue tax advice amid growing scrutiny over the sale of council houses in 2015.

Labor deputy leader Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt and Conservative deputy leader James Daly said: “If you show me yours, I will too Will show you me.”

Her challenge comes after Greater Manchester Police said it would review allegations that information she gave about her living situation a decade ago may have breached electoral laws.

Mr Daley, MP for Bury North, claimed she may have made a false declaration about her place of residence on the electoral register.

He said he had been told that the Detective Chief Inspector was reassessing the police’s decision not to investigate the allegations.

Asked about the developments on Thursday, Ms Rayner said Mr Daley had put pressure on police to investigate and she “believed I did absolutely nothing wrong”.

“I’m very aware of the advice I’ve received,” she told BBC Radio 4 today program. “I don’t need all my details released, my children’s birth certificates are public and it’s not fair to my family.”

Ms Rayner pledged to comply with requests from HMRC, the police and any authorities who wanted to know her tax advice, and in challenging Mr Daley and the Conservatives she added: “If you show me your , I’ll show you mine too.

“If both deputy chairmen Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt want to say I can provide you with my tax details for the last 15 years, I will be happy to disclose all my information at the same time.

“If they want us to do that, I’m open to that.”

Ms Rayner faced scrutiny over whether she paid the correct amount of tax when she sold the council house in 2015 because it was unclear whether it was her main residence.

She rejected suggestions in the book by former Conservative Party deputy leader Lord Ashcroft that she had failed to properly declare her main residence.

An unauthorized biography states that Ashton-under-Lyne MP bought her former council house in Vicarage Road, Stockport, Greater Manchester, in 2007 at a 25 per cent discount under the right to buy scheme.

The former care worker is said to have made a profit of £48,500 when he sold the house eight years later.

Government guidance says tenants can apply to buy their council home through the Right to Buy scheme if it is their “only or main residence”.

Her husband is listed at another address about a mile away in Lowndes Lane, which was also purchased under the Right to Buy scheme.

It is said that in the same year as her marriage, Ms Reyna re-registered the birth of her two youngest children and provided her husband’s residential address.

Ms Rayner insisted that Vicarage Road was her “primary property” despite her husband living elsewhere at the time, but neighbors reportedly disputed her claims that she and her husband were separated.

Tax experts estimate that while Ms Rayner may not owe any capital gains tax after the sale, depending on her residency, she could owe the taxman up to £3,500 in some circumstances.

The latest scrutiny comes as Ms Rayner and Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer prepare to launch the party’s local campaign in the West Midlands.

In an appeal to disaffected Tory voters in 2019, Ms Rayner heaped praise on Boris Johnson’s leveling up agenda, saying the former prime minister was “on to something”.

And, in an attempt to drive a wedge between Mr Johnson and Mr Sunak, she said: “The problem is that the Conservatives then decided not to do that and they hollowed out those areas and took money from those areas under the guise of austerity. walked away with the money and then created this dragon’s lair” Councils spent millions of pounds bidding against each other to recoup a small share of their own funds during the bidding process. “