‘She’s been found out!’ Angela Rayner told to RESIGN by furious Britons speaking to GB News

“If she can’t manage her own affairs or delegate them to someone who is capable of handling them, that raises doubts about her general competence”, one said.

“It signals that the person involved is probably not fit to be trusted with major affairs of state.”

Another added: “She’s the Deputy Prime Minister, surely the standard expected of her is much higher.

“Her primary residence is her constituency, the official records show that. I think even her dental records show that.

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“How she can forget that’s the case and claim a new property in Hove is her primary residency…”

Another Briton said: “£40,000 is an awful lot of money to get confused about, maybe it would be okay if it was a few hundred.

“She has tried to game the system.”

While Britons who spoke to GB News appeared to lack sympathy for the Deputy Prime Minister, she was defended on the People’s Channel by host and former Conservative MP Miriam Cates.

Miriam argued: “If you say it like that, it makes it sound like she deliberately tried to make the Hove property her primary residence in order to avoid tax, but I don’t think it’s that simple.

“The issue surrounds whether she owns the home in Ashton-under-Lyne in her constituency. Any ordinary person would think she doesn’t. She has no mortgage on it and she’s not on the deeds.

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“If the beneficiary of the trust who owns it—in her case her son, who is under 18—exists, then you as an adult parent are counted as having an interest in it. Therefore, it is treated as your home, and it becomes a second property under stamp duty tax law.

“There are accountants and lawyers coming out today saying they didn’t even understand that loophole.”

The Housing Secretary explained that a court established a trust in 2020 to manage finances for her disabled son following an injury.

Her property in the Ashton constituency was transferred into this trust, at which point she liquidated her 25 per cent stake in that home.

These funds were then used to acquire the East Sussex flat. Ms Rayner clarified that claims she deliberately created a trust to evade tax were misguided.

"I think the accusations were that I set up a trust and I flipped it to try and avoid paying it. But actually the complex area of the trust which the advice that I relied upon didn't pick that up," she explained.

She emphasised the trust's creation was court-mandated to secure her son's financial future, not a tax avoidance scheme.

The outstanding tax liability could reach £70,000 according to some estimates, though other experts suggest approximately £40,000.

The discrepancy arose because Ms Rayner declared the Hove flat as her primary residence whilst maintaining ownership of the Greater Manchester property where her children reside.

This classification meant she paid standard stamp duty of roughly £30,000 rather than the higher rate for additional properties. The revelation has prompted fierce political criticism.

Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride condemned the situation as "utterly extraordinary," stating: "While working families and businesses are being hammered by Labour's tax hikes, Angela Rayner has failed to pay the right amount of stamp duty."

He added: "The deputy prime minister should not be setting the rules when she fails to keep them herself."