Politics latest: Angela Rayner resigns after admitting she did not pay enough tax

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1. Accountability is important if we’re to have any trust in our leaders – she has done the right thing. Something a tory would never even consider, as evidenced by their decade and a half of rampant, shameless corruption.

2. The housing secretary fucking up buying a house is remarkable

3. But…. but… r/unitedkingdom told me she did nothing wrong? How can people on Reddit be misinformed about UK politics?

   Edit: See below comments for those same people claiming they always knew it was dodgy. Ridiculous.

4. All these people in Government have to do is not be a fucking idiot. Why do most of them fail?

5. A housing minister not paying stamp duty is sackable. However she will try and come out and spin it. End off. Zero excuses

6. Right thing to do. Holding the government accountable was an absolute joke during the Tory years so Labour have to set a better standard.

7. She was an appalling politician. I remember years ago that many of us had trust in her leadership after Corby, but oh my. She’s proven to be a terrible speaker, a treacherous politician who’s lost the trust of both the left and lgbt community, and this shit on top of that? Get out.

8. Hypocrisy is the most deplorable characteristic for a politician!

9. The right thing to do. Huge cock up in the first place, but respect for not trying to cling to an untenable position like her Tory counterparts are wont to do.

10. How will she pay for her portfolio of property now. An 800k mortgage doesn’t come cheap 

11. labour party deputy leadership election incoming. the question is whether starmer will have enough authority within the PLP to effectively anoint a candidate and avoid a potentially messy and headline-grabbing contest. will likely depend on who he backs – if it’s someone from the party’s right-flank the left/centre-left will likely nominate their own candidate, whereas someone from the party’s centre would likely avoid that, but might upset the blairite clique that hold a lot of power within the party right now

12. Streeting will be thrilled.

    His pathway to no10 is right there for him.

13. So Labour have to hold themselves to a higher standard and it still won’t be seen as enough. Robert Jenrick has literally taken bribes from property developers to approve their housing schemes. 

14. Only difference between Rayner and the rest is she got caught. Tories have been doing similar things since dawn of time and no one cares.

15. Good on her. 14 years of lack of accountability can’t be answered with a further lack of accountability. Shame to see her go, though.

16. Sure all parties have indiscretions. But the Housing minister didn’t pay the proper stamp duty. The anti-corruption minister up for corruption in Sri Lanka. The homelessness minister dumping tenants out onto the street.

    Labour do indiscretions to a new level.

17. I don’t really care about this, but it’s nice to see accountability and self responsibility back on the menu. This is what adults in charge looks like. A Tory would never. 

18. Haigh

    Mahmood

    Siddiq

    Rayner

    4 in 14 months, not bad going.

19. We now have ministers who resign when found to have breached the ministerial code.

    I think this is an improvement.

20. The Deputy leadership election could create a bit of spice. I hope a left wing candidate manages to get on the ballot.

21. Can’t believe the amount of lefties who had proclaimed her as Starmer’s successor. Given Labour insiders were reportedly leaking this stuff, I suspect Streeting is a very happy man today

22. Good riddance. Used to think she was one of the few “for the people” types but like usual, power and privilege takes precedent and she’s abusing her power to get around forking out for things we all have to otherwise.

23. So when do Tice and Farage resign after stashing money offshore to avoid tax?

24. Starmer and his surrounding managers absolutely chuckling to themselves as they get to replace the one member of senior leadership who is both on the left, and picked by the members.

25. Good. There has to be a return to the precedent that if you fuck up in government you should resign or be sacked. A nice departure from the Tory years.

26. Staggering arrogance to think she could get away with it tbh. All to save £40,000 on £800,000 property. Why even take the risk?

    And as always, wonderful to see this sub with egg on it’s face yet again after giving her the all clear.

27. The levels of incompetence across MPs from all parties is staggering. It’s not just the Tories and it’s not just Labour. It seems they’re all affected.

    British politics is laughable in recent years, filled with empty claims, outright lies and rule dodging.

28. So she wasn’t advised incorrectly then. If she was then proof of that would have been released to back this claim up instead of resigning.

29. “Rayner resigns of tax “error” “.

    LOL FFS error?! Tax dodging scum!!

30. So she was told to get specialist tax advice, chose not to, and still had the temerity to defend her position and not resign?

31. Another self serving rat down, none of them care about making the uk better

32. [The conclusion of the report](https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-angela-rayner-starmer-labour-badenoch-farage-reform-12593360?postid=10129590#liveblog-body):

    “I believe Ms Rayner has acted with integrity and with a dedicated and exemplary commitment to public service.

    “I consider, however, that her unfortunate failure to settle her SDLT liability at the correct level, coupled with the fact that this was established only following intensive public scrutiny, leads me to advise you that, in relation to this matter, she cannot be considered to have met the “highest possible standards of proper conduct” as envisaged by the Code.

    “Accordingly, it is with deep regret that I must advise you that in these circumstances, I consider the Code to have been breached.”

33. If it wasn’t for the telegraph this would never have been found

34. When will Farage resign getting paid by overseas sponsors and not paying enough tax?

35. She is a fucking idiot.

    Labour knew going into the GE that if they win both the Tories and Tabloid Media were going to go after them.

    They knew that they had to be clean as the Virgin Mary’s foxhole.

    So for Rayner to think, to have the ego that she could get away with this is breathtakingly moronic.

    As for Starmer, he should have stood her down the second this became a major story. Instead he just sat there with his thumb up his arse as usual and waited.

    Rayner resigning just makes him look even weaker.

    This is how we are going to end up with Reform in power and God help us all

36. Woah!

    Someone resigned after doing something unacceptable. Colour me surprised!!

    Can we fire the members from the previous government for also doing worse offenders? Thanks.

37. Imagine working your way up to be deputy prime minister, only to blow it all away by being greedy.

38. Shame on the Redditors who swore this was a non issue lol. Just shows how people can overlook corruption as long as its their party.

39. I’ve never known a government to score so many own goals in such a short space of time.

40. Great can we maintain these standards now and fire and remove ever fucker that had any role in any PPE or COVID loans fraud too please ?

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