Police to interview Angela Rayner over second home

Another day, another development in the curious case of Angela Rayner’s tax affairs. It now transpires that the deputy Labour leader is set to face a police interview under caution in the next few weeks. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) will quiz Sir Keir Starmer’s second-in-command over which of her two homes was her primary residence — and they have, it is understood, now contacted her to arrange the meeting.

Rayner found herself in the spotlight after the publication of Lord Ashcroft’s Red Queen, when the unofficial biography of the deputy Labour leader unearthed some rather confusing information about her living situation. Documents show she purchased her Vicarage Road council house in Stockport in 2006 under Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme and was registered as living there until 2015. She married Mark Rayner in 2010 — but the couple were, rather confusingly, registered at different addresses for the next five years.