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A Labour frontbencher was put on the spot by Sky's Trevor Phillips over why Sir Keir Starmer has not read Angela Rayner's legal advice in the row over her former living arrangements.
Shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood insisted the Labour leader is "absolutely right to take her at her word".
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The Labour deputy leader,who denies any wrongdoing, is being investigated by police over her living situation from a decade ago.
Ms Mahmood was repeatedly pressed on why Sir Keir, a former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), has not looked at the legal advice Ms Rayner received on the matter during an appearance on Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips.
She said: "That's because he knows Angela Rayner and he knows that if there was a problem she would be taking steps to fix it.
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Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner pictured on Friday (Image: Getty)
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"She has told him, he is absolutely right to take her word. I have every confidence in Angela, as does as does Keir Starmer.
"She has complied with the rules. Her advice tells her she hasn't broken any rules."
Ms Mahood added that the presenter was talking "complete rubbish" when he put it to her that the "real reason" Sir Keir may not have read the legal advice because it would then mean he is unable to continue defending her.
Tory chairman Richard Holden accused Labour of "still trying to cover up Keir Starmer’s role in the Rayner scandal".
He said: “Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood today was unable to explain six times why Keir Starmer has not looked at the legal advice given to Angela Rayner.
"The fact that Labour thinks it’s one rule for them and one rule for everyone else shows it’s the same old Labour.
“Keir Starmer should show some leadership, grasp the details of the scandal or people will rightly wonder who is running the Labour Party if not him.”
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP, who denies any wrongdoing, is facing questions over whether she should have paid capital gains tax on the 2015 sale of her ex-council house and allegations she may have broken electoral law by giving false information about where she was living.
Ms Rayner insists the house on Vicarage Road in Stockport was her principal residence between 2007 and 2015.
She was registered there for five years after she married Mark Rayner in 2010, while he was listed at another address a mile away in Lowndes Lane.
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Greater Manchester Police initially said it would not be investigating the allegations but reassessed information and launched a probe following a complaint by Tory deputy chairman James Daly.
The Labour politician has promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime over the accusations.
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