Overview

• No 10 said a court order prevents Angela Rayner from providing further information on her property and tax affairs and that she is seeking to have it lifted.
• Reports say she saved about £40,000 in stamp duty by classifying an £800,000 Hove flat as her main residence, while her office insists she paid the correct duty and followed all rules.
• Weeks before the purchase, her Ashton-under-Lyne home interest was moved into a trust and recorded at £650,000, prompting inheritance tax questions that allies reject as a motive.
• She treats the Ashton property as her primary address for council tax and pays a second-home premium on the Hove flat, as Conservatives also challenge her electoral registrations.
• The Conservative Party has asked the prime minister’s standards adviser to investigate potential ministerial code breaches, but Sir Laurie Magnus has not announced a probe and Keir Starmer has expressed confidence in her.