Overview
- Conservative MPs have written to Sir Keir Starmer and the Prime Minister’s ethics adviser alleging Angela Rayner failed to pay the correct council tax rate on her official Westminster flat.
- Westminster City Council introduced a 100% second‑home premium from April 1, with the council told in May that the Admiralty House flat was a second home.
- The Cabinet Office says the government property agency confirmed the premium to the council in June and an invoice issued in July was paid the same day.
- Conservatives claim the July payment followed their Parliamentary Questions and allege breaches of the law and the Ministerial Code, as well as misleading of Parliament.
- The government maintains liability for the grace‑and‑favour property’s council tax sits with the state agency and there has been no independent finding of wrongdoing, with Rayner’s earlier stamp duty case providing political context.