angela rayner is said to have made a £48,500 profit selling the vicarage road property. pay capital gains tax on it. however, hmrc says married couples can only count one property as their main home, something angela rayner has admitted to newsnight she didn t realise at the time. and secondly, under electoral law you must tell the truth about your main residence. that's what we think greater manchester police are now investigating. earlier this month angela rayner spoke to newsnight s nick watt in her first broadcast interview on the row. the rules are complex and there are various different ways in which it is calculated, but i got expert advice because if i didn't owe any capital gains tax i would have said and i would have paid it, but i don't know any capital gains tax because of the circumstances and i have gone through that with a tax expert and they have given me that advice. and one legal expert argues it s a little late to investigate a possible breach of electoral law. under the representation of the people act any offence committed under that act has to be pr

she bought a house on vicarage roadin she bought a house on vicarage road in 2007, three years later nearby. she appeared you have registered a child at his address but was registered to vote at her own. the tories are questioning whether she really lived at vicarage road, some neighbours reportedly said it was not her main residence. legally married capitols should only choose one property is the primary one at any given time. toys are already questioned whether she should have paid capital gains tax on the property made when she sold her house in 2015. she says she has since received legal advice that such should not owe any tax although she was used to publish it. she said she is completely confident she followed the rules at all times and her boss is back on her. we welcome and her boss is back on her. - welcome this investigation because it will allow anyone to because it will allow anyone to be drawn in relation to this matter. i am fully confident angela rayner has not broken the rules. she will co—operate with the investigation as you would expect. it is really a matter for t

the inquiry centres here, vicarage road in stockport, where angela rayner bought a property in 2007, before she became an mp. in 2010, she married mark rayner, who owned his own home about two miles away, and appears to have registered a child at his address. but, on the electoral register, she continued to be listed as living at hers, creating confusion as to where she legally lived. the law says that a married couple who each have their own property can only choose one to be their main home at any one time. as well as facing an investigation about whether she really lived here on vicarage road, angela rayner continues to face questions about whether she should have paid capital gains tax when she sold her house just before she became an mp. the amounts of money at stake are relatively small. tax experts have estimated up to £3500. but the conservatives are pursuing this because they think that the political cost to labour could be much more significant. we welcome this investigation because it will allow a line to be drawn in relation to this matter. i am fully confident that angel

the inquiry centres here, vicarage road in stockport, where angela rayner bought a property in 2007,efore she became an mp. in 2010, she married mark rayner, who owned his own home about two miles away, and appears to have registered a child at his address. but, on the electoral register, she continued to be listed as living at hers, creating confusion as to where she legally lived. the law says that a married couple who each have their own property can only choose one to be their main home at any one time. as well as facing an investigation about whether she really lived here on vicarage road, angela rayner continues to face questions about whether she should have paid capital gains tax when she sold her house just before she became an mp. the amounts of money at stake are relatively small. tax experts have estimated up to £3500. but the conservatives are pursuing this because they think that the political cost to labour could be much more significant. angela rayner has always said she has done nothing wrong and will hand over any information she is asked for. the labour leader cont

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she bought a house on vicarage road in stockport in 2007.ress, but was registered to vote at her own. the tories are questioning whether she really lived at vicarage road. some neighbours have reportedly said it wasn't her main residence. legally, married couples should only choose one property as their primary one at any given time. the tories have already questioned whether she should have paid capital gains tax on the profit she made when she sold her house in 2015. ms rayner says she has since received legal advice that said she didn't owe any tax, although she's refused to publish it. she says she's completely confident she's followed the rules at all times and her boss is backing her. we welcome this investigation because it will allow a line to be drawn in relation to this matter. i am fully confident that angela rayner has not broken the rules. she will co—operate with the investigation, as you would expect, and it's really a matter for the police. angela rayner accused the conservatives of trying to smear her by reporting her to the

the tories are questioning whether she actually lived at vicarage road.. ms rayner said she received legal advice which said she did not owe any tax. she says she is completely confident she followed the rules at all times and her boss is backing her. we welcome this investigation i because it will allow a line to be drawn in relation to this matter. i am fully confident - that angela rayner has not broken the rules. she will cooperate with - the investigation and it is really a matter for the police. angela rayner accused the conservatives of trying to spare her by reporting her to the police to distract from their own record. the tories are convinced they're onto something. i think the double standards have been extraordinary. i angela rayner has spent her- political career calling people out for exactly the thing she seems to be doing now. _ it is not acceptable to ignore it. the conservatives hope they have angela rayner on the ropes and labour hope she will soon be vindicated, putting an end to an issue which has dominated party for weeks. lord camer

now, angela rayner has denied any wrongdoing and has insisted that the home on vicarage road was hers and council tax there and she was on the electoral roll at the property too, and she has received legal advice that she acted correctly . so that's acted correctly. so that's great, isn't it? nothing to see. end of my take. at ten. shall we have a cup of tea? well, no, we can't, because prior to the mail on sunday investigation, neighbours of mrs. rayner have insisted that she fact insisted that she was in fact living primarily about a mile away at a property on londis lane. former next door neighbour sylvia hampson said that rayner lived in the terraced home in londis lane for a good 6 or 7 years, despite the labour mps insistence that her main home was on vicarage road. this wily next door neighbour told the times newspaper angela lived there as a family, with her partner mark and the three kids. there is no doubt she was living there all the time. now the police have investigated this and found no evidence of any wrongdoing. a labour spokesperson says that following professional a

, in stockport on vicarage road, where she claimed to have lived separately from her husband .ment meant that she didn't have to pay capital gains tax when she sold it eight years later, making a profit of £48,500. she also faces being called a hypocrite because she's criticised help to buy, which was a flagship tory scheme which she accused of fuelling the housing crisis whilst taking advantage of it herself. according to the mail on sunday correspondence on social media posts from around that time seem to indicate that angela may have in fact lived at her husband's home in lundy's lane , even home in lundy's lane, even registering her children there in 2010. if that is the case, then calls for the police to investigate would grow louder. angela has insisted that she's done nothing wrong and that i brought my council house in two thousand and seven. i owned my own home, lived there, paid bills there, and was registered there to vote prior to selling there to vote prior to selling the house in 2015, all before i was an mp. well, angela clearly has questions to answer. if sadly

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hampson, was her neighbour, hampson, who was her neighbour, who was a angela rayner's neighbour, in vicarage roadll gets very confusing. this and in fact, this person, sylvia hampson, knew who angela rayner well enough to sign a document for her regarding the sale of the property. so if this person is calling angela rayner as she does as something liar, then then that's quite serious. so i mean , it is true that the right mean, it is true that the right wing press is out to get angela raynen wing press is out to get angela rayner, but they are being helped by people who are supposedly either angela rayner's friends or angela rayner's friends or angela rayner's ex friends. yes >> which raises also the notion that this isn't a story. i mean, there's a piece in the mail on sunday questioning why the guardian hasn't really covered sunday questioning why the guarbbc'sasn't really covered sunday questioning why the guar bbc'sasn't re looked lered sunday questioning why the guarbbc'sasn't relooked ated this. bbc's barely looked at it. there a story michael, there is a story here, michael, because she's

aliens finally land on planet earth, even they will be wondering whether angela rayner lived on vicarage roadoad in 2015. now, many people say that the sum involved capital gains tax of just over £1,000 is trivial. they are right . many people say there are right. many people say there are bigger problems facing the country. the cost of living bloated and inefficient public services , sky high rents, energy services, sky high rents, energy bills, debt, crime they are right. many say it is a political witch hunt against a prominent left wing politician, a working class woman who has worked hard herself and made something of her life . well, something of her life. well, maybe they are right. so why does this matter? why won't the story go away ? because of the story go away? because of the impression, rightly or wrongly, that the woman who would be our next deputy prime minister is hiding something and not being straight with the public. and this is surely a qualification that's required for high office. rayner herself has been enthusiastic in her hounding down of public figures like bofis down

she's repeatedly claimed that she lived at a property on vicarage road. she was registered there on the electoral roll, reportedly when miss rayner reregistered the births of her two children in 2010, she gave her address as her husband's house in lundy's lane. this enabled her to avoid capital gains tax on the sale of the former council house, and by retaining the property for more than five years. she avoided having to return some of the price discount to the council . price discount to the council. she could also have earned a 25% single occupancy discount on her council tax. now here are some of the devastating pictures on social media posts. all right. she posts something showing her son's bedroom. that room is then confirmed to be the loft room at lundy's lane , which strongly lundy's lane, which strongly implies that her children were living at that address . and living at that address. and there are pictures of her saying things like home, sweet home and just got back from work, and photos of like this, which photos of her like this, which appear

said that neighbours contradict angela rayner's that this rayner's account that this address in vicarage roadher main living address. neighbours have apparently said that actually it was her brother who was living there at the time and according to electoral law, if to capital to electoral law, if you are not living at a property, if you haven't been living there for quite a long time, then you are eligible to pay time, then you are eligible to pay capital gains tax on the profits that you made from the sale of that property. so if angela rayner has is found to have been lying about living there the time and as we there at the time and as we know, there is evidence that perhaps she wasn't living there at the time that her children's birth certificates were registered from her husband's address. and she was married to her husband at the time. if it does turn out that she lied about this and that her brother was actually living there rather than her, she could be found to have broken electoral law, even if she hasn't been even if she hasn't found to have broken electoral law, then this is a ver