There are still plenty of unanswered questions for Angela Rayner as she prepares for her march on Downing Street. Questions any leadership candidate – any future Prime Minister – would not want hanging over them…
- Where did Angela Rayner actually live between 2007 and 2015? If it was Vicarage Road, why do multiple neighbours say they never saw her there? If it was Lowndes Lane, why was she registered on the electoral roll at a different address for six years?
- Why did she give Lowndes Lane as her address when re-registering her children’s birth certificates in October 2010, just weeks after her wedding, when she was simultaneously registered to vote at Vicarage Road? Which document was wrong?
- Why was her brother Darren Bowen listed on the electoral roll at Lowndes Lane with her ex-husband Mark Rayner for several years? Was he living there as a tenant? And if Rayner had moved out of Vicarage Road, was that property claiming a single person’s council tax discount it was not entitled to?
- Someone briefed the Times last week that Labour used party cash to hire Jonathan Peacock KC to review Rayner’s stamp duty position on her Hove flat. Guido has already covered the potential tax implications that story raises. In 2024, however, Rayner also claimed to have taken “expert tax and legal advice” to confirm no capital gains tax was owed on the council house sale. It is understood she never revealed that advice to anyone, including Starmer. Who paid for it? Did Labour bankroll that as well?
Perhaps these questions will be answered in Rayner’s hotly-anticipated memoir. In December, the Guardian gleefully reported of a “bidding war between several different publishers” for the rights to the book. Three months on, no contract has appeared in her register of interests, and this morning Politico heard that won’t change at the next update to the register. So presumably no money has changed hands yet, which is usually the first thing that happens when a book deal is signed…
A memoir would force Rayner into a bit of a corner. She could address the outstanding questions about her property arrangements head-on, which might cause a headache for someone trying to become PM. She could try to avoid them, which would raise eyebrows on its own. Or she could try to spin her way out of it, which never works either. It’ll be a page-turner when (if) it ever comes out…
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