Overview

• Rayner confirmed she left Government after scrutiny of her tax position, following questions over an £800,000 Hove flat purchase earlier this year.
• She stated a court‑instructed trust for her disabled son was created in 2020, with part of the family home transferred in 2023 and the remaining interest sold to the trust in January 2025.
• Rayner said the property moves were to secure her son’s long‑term housing in an adapted home where he feels safe.
• Her son Charlie was born at 23 weeks, is registered blind and has learning difficulties, and his 2020 award followed an approximately 11‑year legal battle with the hospital.
• Rayner described a 2023 divorce and a ‘nesting’ arrangement to keep the children in the family home, with Charlie and his brother living with their father near Manchester while she resides mainly in Admiralty House.