Keir Starmer promoted Shabana Mahmood to Home Secretary as he shuffled his pack, making David Lammy deputy PM and moving Yvette Cooper to head the Foreign Office 18:59, 05 Sep 2025Updated 18:59, 05 Sep 2025 Keir Starmer suffered a blow as Angela Rayner quit after a tax error(Image: Ian Vogler / Avalon) Keir Starmer has
A devastating end for Rayner and a long list of unanswered questions for Starmerpublished at 12:09 British Summer Time 12:09 BST Henry ZeffmanChief political correspondent Having overcome a difficult upbringing and personal adversity to climb the heights of the Labour Party and become only its second ever deputy prime minister, it has all come to
Keir Starmer kicked off another desperate reshuffle today after Angela Rayner was finally forced to quit over her tax affairs. The PM is taking a knife to his team just days after he tried to launch a Labour ‘Phase 2’ following a torrid summer and consistently dire polls. Sir Keir has been left scrambling to stabilise his government
Nigel Farage is reportedly using a private company for payments from his GB News appearances in order to pay less tax. A report in the Guardian on Friday says that Farage’s GB News earnings for his prime-time show are paid to his company, Thorn in the Side Ltd. This means he pays 25 per cent
By JAMIE BULLEN, LIVE COVERAGE EDITOR Updated: 12:02, 5 September 2025 Angela Rayner is today expected to leave the Government after Sir Keir Starmer received the ethics report into her conduct. Follow the Daily Mail’s live coverage below Breaking:Angela Rayner ‘expected to leave Government’ Angela Rayner is expected to leave the Government today, according to
Billy KenberPolitics investigations correspondent PA Media Mystery continues to swirl around the expert advice Angela Rayner said she received before buying a flat in East Sussex. Rayner, who is also the minister in charge of housing, has admitted she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in Hove. She claimed she was badly advised, with
Angela Rayner‘s political career is hanging by a thread today after her furious lawyers last night accused her of making them a ‘scapegoat’ for her tax fiasco. The Deputy Prime Minister is skating on thin ice as ministerial ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus prepares to deliver his verdict as soon as today. It comes after
Angela Rayner‘s property lawyers today avoided any responsibility for the fiasco over her tax. The high-street conveyancing firm she used to buy a flat issued a devastating statement saying they had calculated the stamp duty based on the information she provided. It could prove a fatal blow to the deputy prime minister who had sought
Mr Stroud said he was told by a council officer that the premium tax could rise by 300% depending on how long properties were empty. He said: “If you want people to do up houses this is literally the worst thing you can be doing. “I won’t be buying any houses in County Durham again.”
Rayner: This was not an attempt to dodge taxpublished at 11:44 British Summer Time 3 September 11:44 BST 3 September Rayner acknowledges that she did not pay the correct tax on the flat in Hove, East Sussex, but says it was not an attempt to “dodge tax”. Explaining the situation, Rayner tells reporters that a