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September 5, 2025
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UK

UK Deputy PM Resigns Amid Tax Scandal.

PULSE POINTS

❓WHAT HAPPENED: British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner resigned after an investigation into her tax affairs revealed she misrepresented her primary residence.

👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: Angela Rayner, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Reform Party leader Nigel Farage.

📍WHEN & WHERE: The resignation followed an investigation earlier this week concerning her $1 million residence in Hove, East Sussex.

💬KEY QUOTE: “You simply can’t get away from being the Housing Secretary and avoiding £40,000 of stamp duty.” Nigel Farage.

🎯IMPACT: The resignation has sparked criticism of her conveyancing firm, Verrico & Associates, which claimed they acted in “good faith” but were being made “scapegoats.”

IN FULL

Angela Rayner has officially resigned from her role as British Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary after a probe into her tax affairs revealed irregularities surrounding the purchase of a $1 million property in Hove, East Sussex. The controversy stemmed from her designation of the home as her primary residence, an error that resulted in a significant underpayment of stamp duty, a British tax on property transactions.

Earlier this week, Rayner claimed she was unaware she owned another home. She did purchase a home in Manchester in 2016 with her now-former husband. However, in 2020, her son received a large payout from the socialized National Health Service (NHS) after failings in his care left him disabled, and the couple set up a trust to manage the money. Upon her divorce from her husband, 50 percent of the home was placed in the trust, with Rayner taking 25 percent.

Rayner later sold her share of the home to the trust in 2025. Despite selling her share, the property remained her primary residence for tax purposes, as her son is under 18 and cannot legally take possession of it.

Rayner voluntarily referred the matter to Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent adviser on ministerial standards. In a report submitted to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Sir Laurie concluded that Rayner’s “position in government was ‘untenable.’”

Acknowledging the mistake, Rayner stated she is cooperating with both her legal team and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) to address the issue. The scandal is not the first for Rayner, who was accused of spending the equivalent of $86,000 of taxpayer money on a private photographer late last year.

Reform Party leader Nigel Farage reacted to Rayner’s resignation during his party’s conference on September 5, saying, “You simply can’t get away from being the Housing Secretary and avoiding £40,000 of stamp duty.”

The resignation could be a significant blow for Prime Minister Starmer, as Rayner was one of the few demonstrably working-class members of the Labour Party leadership. It is just the latest problem for the Prime Minister, whose government has been marred by multiple scandals. In addition to losing Rayner as Housing Secretary over not paying taxes on property, he also lost his former Anti-Corruption Minister, Tulip Siddiq, after her family was caught up in a corruption investigation.

Starmer also faces growing accusations of presiding over a rapid erosion of free speech rights and a two-tier justice system that favors minorities and disfavors Christians, white people, and critics of immigration.

Image by Parliament / Maria Unger.

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December 11, 2024
UK

Britain’s New Deputy Prime Minister Has Spent Almost $100,000 in Public Cash on a Private Photographer.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is spending over $86,000 a year on a personal photographer, claiming she needs the photographer to show the public what she is doing. Labour‘s Angela Rayner, number two in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government, claimed, “There’s a kind of balance to be had, because sometimes you get ‘well, you never see her,’ or ‘she’s only doing that for a photo opportunity.'”

She insisted she was “try[ing] and strike the right balance between letting people know what you’re doing and here you are.” The revelation about Rayner’s photographer follows her disastrous immigration interview on Sunday, December 8. In it, she was interrogated about the government boasting it will build 1.5 million new homes—while being expected to let at least 2.5 million immigrants into the country.

Between mid-2022 and mid-2023, England and Wales saw their largest population increase in 75 years, adding over 610,000 people. Labour initially promised to prioritize British citizens over migrants for public housing, but Rayner, who serves as Housing Secretary, scrapped the idea.

The Labour government, which won a large majority in the House of Commons in a July snap election despite a low share of the popular vote, has seen what popularity it had decline massively since it came to power.

Prime Minister Starmer’s party now ranks third in some polls, behind Brexit leader Nigel Farage’s Reform Party and the Conservatives. This polling has led Reform chairman Zia Yusuf to state that he feels confident the populist party can form Britain’s next government.

Image by Kirsty O’Connor / 10 Downing Street.

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The Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is spending over $86,000 a year on a personal photographer, claiming she needs the photographer to show the public what she is doing. Labour's Angela Rayner, number two in Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's government, claimed, "There’s a kind of balance to be had, because sometimes you get ‘well, you never see her,’ or ‘she’s only doing that for a photo opportunity.'" show more
August 12, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
UK

UK Govt Scraps Plan to Prioritize Britons Over Foreigners for Public Housing Amid Migration Riots.

Britain’s leftist government is scrapping plans to prioritize British citizens over migrants for public housing as violent protests and counter-protests over mass migration rock the country. Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, is removing the “UK connection test” for taxpayer-subsidized housing, referred to as social housing in the United Kingdom.

The previous Conservative Party government introduced the “UK connection test” for social housing after 14 years of failing to follow through on its promises to curb immigration. Labour, which ousted the Conservatives in a July 4 snap election, has scrapped it before it could be implemented.

The move provides further evidence that Prime Minister Starmer has no intention of addressing public concerns over immigration and integration failures, dismissing protests prompted by the mass stabbing of young girls by a migration-background teenager in Southport, England, as nothing but “far-right thuggery.”

“If you were born in this country, worked hard, paid your taxes, and obeyed our laws, then [Labour will] put your family at the bottom of the housing list in favor of people who have just arrived in our country,” commented Lee Anderson, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Nigel Farage‘s Reform Party.

In many British cities, a grossly disproportionate share of households headed by foreigners are in taxpayer-subsidized housing. In the capital of London, 74 percent of all Somali households, roughly half of Jamaican and Ghanaian households, 44 percent of Bangladeshi households, 41 percent of Nigerian households, 37 percent of Turkish households, and 35 percent of Afghan households are in social housing.

This compares to 23.5 percent of households headed by people born in Britain—including people from a relatively recent migration background, with parents or grandparents born overseas.

Image via Wikimedia Commons.

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Britain's leftist government is scrapping plans to prioritize British citizens over migrants for public housing as violent protests and counter-protests over mass migration rock the country. Angela Rayner, Deputy Prime Minister and Housing Secretary under Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, is removing the "UK connection test" for taxpayer-subsidized housing, referred to as social housing in the United Kingdom. show more
June 27, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
UK

Britain’s Labour Party Plots Fresh Migrant Wave ACROSS Britain.

Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner insists a Labour government will spread migrants across the United Kingdom. The leftist party, projected to win Britain’s snap election on July 4, plans to make asylum seekers eligible for places in 1.5 million new public housing units.

“Every borough has an obligation to take on their fair share of asylum seekers. Some shouldn’t be in the UK, but they’re here costing taxpayers because we are not dealing with the backlog,” Rayner stated.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives say Labour’s plans will result in 1,300 new asylum seekers in every municipal authority area.

Analysis shows that Labour-controlled local governments currently host almost nine times as many asylum seekers in public housing as Conservative areas. Labour areas also house four times as many asylum seekers in hotels as Conservative areas.

Currently, the British government is barring 90,000 asylum seekers from claiming asylum, earmarking them for deportation to Rwanda. Labour pledges to scrap the Rwanda scheme on day one, allowing them to apply to remain in Britain.

Rayner aims to appease Muslims in her Ashton constituency, most of whom have a migration background, with her policy positions. Leaked video of the Labour Deputy Leader shows her telling Muslims, “2019 was a very difficult year in Ashton. My voters were very upset with the Labour Party: I was with you, and you saw me over the line. You supported me. In seats that are similar to mine, people lost their seat. You were there for me, and I don’t believe I could have done that without you.”

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Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner insists a Labour government will spread migrants across the United Kingdom. The leftist party, projected to win Britain's snap election on July 4, plans to make asylum seekers eligible for places in 1.5 million new public housing units. show more
May 30, 2024
Jack Montgomery
Immigration
UK

WATCH: Leaked Video Shows Future UK Deputy PM Begging Muslims for Support.

A leaked video of Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Great Britain, shows her pleading for support from Muslim community leaders in the upcoming British election, groveling she owes her seat in Parliament to them.

Rayner, who also joined Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in kneeling to Black Lives Matter in 2020, faces a serious challenge in her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency (electoral district) from the Workers Party of Britain, led by George Galloway.

Galloway, a former Labour MP, returned to Parliament in a February by-election in Rochdale, an area with a sizeable Muslim population notorious for grooming gang activity. Galloway has long cultivated the Muslim community, campaigning on a platform that Labour was insufficiently anti-Israel and declaring, “This is for Gaza!” when he won the Rochdale seat.

In the video, Rayner says, “2019 was a very difficult year in Ashton. My voters were very upset with the Labour Party: I was with you, and you saw me over the line. You supported me. In seats that are similar to mine, people lost their seat — you were there for me, and I don’t believe I could have done that without you.” The Conservatives under then-Prime Minister Boris Johnson won the election in 2019 by a large margin.

Labour is now on course to oust the Conservatives in a landslide on July 4. However, Rayner will likely not be Deputy Prime Minister if she loses her seat.

“If me resigning as an MP now would bring the ceasefire [in Gaza] I would do it… We can’t affect anything when we’re not in government,” she begs, promising a Labour government will “recognize Palestine” as a state if it gains power.

“Qatar, Saudi Arabia, all of these people, we are all working to stop what’s happening at the moment,” she says — though she confesses Joe Biden has far more power to influence the Israel-Hamas war than any British government.

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A leaked video of Angela Rayner, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party in Great Britain, shows her pleading for support from Muslim community leaders in the upcoming British election, groveling she owes her seat in Parliament to them. show more