Overview

• Independent adviser Laurie Magnus found Rayner breached the ministerial code over a recent property purchase, while noting she acted in good faith and with integrity.
• Rayner said she takes full responsibility for the tax error and regretted not seeking specialist advice, having self-referred to the ethics adviser and alerted tax authorities.
• Reports indicate the issue concerned stamp duty on a Hove apartment declared as her main residence after her name was removed from another property's title, with media estimating a £40,000 saving.
• Starmer accepted her resignation, saying he was very sad to see her go and that she would remain a major figure in the Labour Party.
• A wider reshuffle began, with British media reporting David Lammy is expected to become deputy prime minister and justice secretary, Yvette Cooper to move to the Foreign Office, Shabana Mahmood to the Home Office, and ministers Ian Murray and Lucy Powell exiting.