Overview
- New photos show close-protection officers using a taxpayer-funded BMW X5 to move bags and boxes and to ferry Sam Tarry between properties in Hove and Brighton.
- A spokesperson for Angela Rayner said the assistance was a security decision due to an elevated risk, citing misogynistic and extremist graffiti at her Hove home.
- Conservative figures and the TaxPayers' Alliance called for explanations and suggested an investigation to determine whether any rules were broken.
- Parliamentary authorities fund the security detail, reportedly provided by Mitie, and a Commons spokesman declined to comment on individual arrangements.
- The Times reports parliamentary authorities are unlikely to launch a formal probe, and Rayner resigned on 5 September after an ethics finding over underpaid stamp duty of about £40,000.