Angela Rayner resigns as UK deputy prime minister over stamp duty underpayment

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00:00Angela Rayner has resigned as Downing Street's No. 2 and Housing Secretary after a row over

00:05her failure to pay enough tax on a seaside flat she owned.

00:09Rayner said she takes full responsibility for failing to seek further tax advice after

00:13it was revealed she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in East Sussex.

00:19Months before she bought the flat, she put her stake in her Ashton house into a separate

00:24trust.

00:25The accusations were that I'd set up a trust or I'd flipped it to try and avoid paying

00:30it, but actually the complex area of the trust which the advice that I relied upon didn't

00:38pick that up.

00:40The leading tax counsel who has subsequently looked at it has gone into that and has said

00:45that actually because of that it did remain my sole property and the trust wasn't set up

00:51as accusations have been made for me to try and flip or dodge tax or anything of that

00:58nature.

00:59Rayner, who was also deputy leader of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour Party, was widely

01:04considered one of the most powerful women in the UK.

01:07She represented a core working class voice in Starmer's government, having grown up in

01:12poverty and rising to the top of the Labour Party.

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