Overview

• The Telegraph and other outlets report the Deputy Prime Minister removed her name from the Ashton-under-Lyne house deeds weeks before buying an £800,000 Hove apartment, which reports say enabled main-home stamp duty treatment.
• Coverage says she paid £30,000 rather than £70,000 in stamp duty by declaring the Hove purchase as her primary residence.
• For council tax, she reportedly told Tameside Council her Ashton home remains her main address and notified Brighton & Hove that the Hove flat is a second home.
• HM Land Registry lists applications pending on the Ashton-under-Lyne title, with reports saying ownership changes were lodged before the May purchase.
• The Conservative Party has begun a legal process to remove her from the Ashton electoral roll, a step that reports say could leave her personally liable for council tax on her Admiralty House flat if successful.