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Angela Rayner's cheeky reply to council house probe: 'Show me yours I'll show you mine'

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Angela Rayner, Labour's deputy leader (Image: GETTY)

Angela Rayner has insisted she will not publish the tax advice she received on the sale of her council house unless Rishi Sunak does likewise, telling the Prime Minister: "I'll show you mine if you show me yours."

The Labour Party's deputy leader is facing fresh scrutiny over her living situation a decade ago - and insisted she had done "absolutely nothing wrong".

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Asked why she would not publish that advice, Ms Rayner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "Because that's my personal tax advice. But I'm happy to comply with the necessary authorities that want to see that."

She said she would hand over the information to the police and HMRC, "but I'm not going to put out all of my personal details for the last 15 years about my family".

Ms Rayner said if Mr Daly, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt published their tax details for the last 15 years, she would do the same.

She said: "If you show me yours, then I'll show you mine."

Ms Rayner has rejected suggestions in a book by former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft that she failed to properly declare her main home.

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Angela Rayner with leader Sir Keir Starmer, Lisa Nandy and shadow Foreign Secretary David Lammy (Image: Getty)

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The unauthorised biography alleges that the MP for Ashton-under-Lyne bought her former council house, in Vicarage Road in Stockport, Greater Manchester, with a 25 percent discount in 2007 under the right-to-buy scheme.

The former carer is said to have made a ￡48,500 profit when selling the house eight years later.

Government guidance says that a tenant can apply to buy their council home through the right-to-buy scheme if it is their "only or main home".

Her husband was listed at another address in Lowndes Lane, about a mile away, which had also been bought under the right-to-buy scheme.

In the same year as her wedding, Ms Rayner is said to have re-registered the births of her two youngest children, giving her address as where her husband resided.

Ms Rayner has insisted that Vicarage Road was her "principal property" despite her husband living elsewhere at the time.

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In a message to Rishi Sunak, Ms Rayner said: 'I'll show you mine if you show me yours' (Image: Getty)

But neighbours have reportedly disputed her claim that she lived apart from her husband.

Tax experts have estimated that, while Ms Rayner may not have owed anything in capital gains tax following the sale depending on her residency situation, there are circumstances in which she could have owed as much as ￡3,500 to the taxman.

Mr Daly made police aware of neighbours' statements, and alleged Ms Rayner may have made a false declaration about where she was living on the electoral register.

A spokesperson for Greater Manchester Police on Wednesday said: "We have received a complaint regarding our decision not to investigate an allegation and are in the process of reassessing this decision.

"The complainant will be updated with the outcome of the reassessment in due course."

Labour frontbencher Lisa Nandy said the party would "respect the process" as she backed Mr Rayner.

"The police originally closed the investigation. I understand they've reopened it because a Conservative MP has asked them to do so," she told Times Radio.

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