Watch: Sunak ridicules Starmer over Rayner

The curious case of Angela Rayner’s tax affairs continues to drag on and Rishi Sunak isn’t prepared to let Sir Keir Starmer forget about it. In a new development yesterday, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) Steve Watson revealed that ‘there are a number of assertions knocking about’ while another police source told the Times that ‘it’s not a single issue’ that the police are concerned with. Rayner has repeatedly denied she has done anything wrong and has been supported by Starmer (although he hasn’t yet read the legal advice she received on the matter) but that didn’t stop the Prime Minister taunting the Labour leader.

Starmer used his first opportunity at today’s Prime Minister’s Questions to claim that he was the ‘proud owner’ in possession of a rare, unsigned copy of Liz Truss’s new book. He quizzed Sunak: was the former prime minister’s opinion that her mini-Budget announcement was ‘the happiest moment of her premiership’ a sentiment that mortgage holders also associated with that fateful day? Sunak batted him off: ‘Mr Speaker, all I’d say is, he ought to spend a bit less time reading that book and a bit more time reading the deputy leader’s tax advice.’