Angela Rayner under fire as photos show Labour's deputy leader boasting of domestic bliss at home she supposedly didn't live in
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Angela Rayner has come under fire yet again after photos appeared to show Labour's deputy leader boasting about living at an address she adamantly refused to call home.
Rayner, 44, has spent more than a month claiming her "principal property" was a house in Stockport which meant she was living separately from her husband and children for the first few years of marriage.
However, a report by The Mail on Sunday found Rayner posted a series of social media updates about her life with her children and cats at her husband's address.
A photo uploaded to Twitter, which featured the backdrop of her husband's address, included a caption saying: "Just got back from work and within five minutes my cats are on my knee. I think I've been missed.
The mother-of-three, who refused to publish her tax advice, potentially faces a criminal conviction and a fine for a false declaration on the electoral roll.
Tory MP James Daly told The Mail on Sunday: "These staggering revelations seem to show that Angela Rayner has not been telling the truth about the most basic facts.
Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner launches the party's campaign for the May 2 local elections
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"Keir Starmer has said he has full confidence in her but has refused to consider any evidence.
"This is now a question about his leadership and whether he is happy to have a deputy incapable of being straightforward with the public."
Rayner purchased the property using Margaret Thatcher's right-to-buy scheme in 2007 and made £48,500 in profit when she sold the home eight years later.
She was also registered on the electoral roll at Vicarage Road for the first five years of her marriage.
Social media posts showed Rayner in the home
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He was meanwhile listed at an address in Lowndes Lane a mile away.
Rayner also gave her address as her husband’s house when she re-registered the births of two of her children in 2010.
Such an arrangement allegedly could have helped the 44-year-old avoid capital gains tax on the sale of the former council house and by retaining the property for more than half a decade she avoided having to return some of the price discount to the council.
However, Rayner insisted: "I bought my council house back in 2007.
Greater Manchester police are said to be reassessing claims that Angela Rayner broke electoral law PA"I owned my own home, lived there, paid the bills there and was registered to vote there, prior to selling the house in 2015.
"All before I was an MP. As with the majority of ordinary people who sell their own homes, I was not liable for capital gains tax because it was my home and the only one I owned."
She later added: "Vicarage Road was my principal property.... my house was my house at Vicarage Road and I paid all my bills there, that was my home."
A number of photos were uploaded to social media
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Rayner's social media posts appeared to show the same furniture and interior from her husband's home.
A post from April 2014 read "just got home" and included a picture of one of her boys playing against a Lowndes Lane backdrop.
Another image from 2012 said "I can cook", with a picture of her children in the Lowndes Lane kitchen.
A Labour spokesman said today: "Angela and her husband mutually decided to maintain their existing residences to reflect their family’s circumstances and they shared childcare responsibilities.
"Angela has always made clear she also spent time at her husband’s property when they had children and got married. She was perfectly entitled to do so."
GB News has approached Rayner's office for comment.
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