Yes - for the simple reason that Starmer cannot sack her

Her position of Deputy Leader and therefore Deputy Prime minister is selected by the party not the leader. She would have to resign from that first.

She received crap advice from the legal profession as she has complex personal finances.

With the utmost respect to those on here in that profession my experience has always been that lawyers work on the basis of getting you the answer that you are looking for as they make their money (especially barristers) out of having arguments as to how the law can be interpreted.

This is a classic political mountain out of a molehill scenario. IF evidence emerges that there was advice that she should pay the full amount and chose not to then yes she should resign but until then she has done nothing wrong and probably her lawyers have notified their E&O insurers of a potential claim.

Posted By: Ruttles on September 4th 2025 at 11:59:51

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Do we think Angela Rayner will survive? (General Chat) - Disco, Sep 4, 10:09:10
- No (n/m) (General Chat) - shoddy, Sep 4, 13:08:26
- No (General Chat) - Kangol Canary, Sep 4, 12:42:04
- Yes - for the simple reason that Starmer cannot sack her (General Chat) - Ruttles, Sep 4, 11:59:51
  - It's not complex though (General Chat) - Kangol Canary, Sep 4, 12:45:15
    - My point is that anyone at a senior level in any organisation has complex taxes and (General Chat) - Ruttles, Sep 4, 13:42:08
    - do you know that the child is not covered by an exemption ? (General Chat) - Henclrikus, Sep 4, 13:03:25
      - Yes. Because Rayner has said she should have paid. (General Chat) - Kangol Canary, Sep 4, 13:21:57
        
        In the section on 'Trusts', and where it says "unless the child ..." (General Chat) - Henclrikus, Sep 4, 13:46:15
        
        Details. (General Chat) - Snakepit Divorcee, Sep 4, 15:55:15
        
        She certainly marked the flat (General Chat) - phrankin, Sep 4, 18:06:15
  - It wasn't that she gets sacked by Starmer (General Chat) - Disco, Sep 4, 12:10:21
- Deputy PM responsible for housing doesn't understand tax (General Chat) - KevinBond, Sep 4, 11:40:41
- I'd rather it did for Starmer. Mind you, we'd probably then get (General Chat) - CB41, Sep 4, 10:50:40
- not sure why she didn't pay it .... (General Chat) - ghostof barry butler, Sep 4, 10:37:10
  - To be fair this is effectively what she has done (n/m) (General Chat) - Kangol Canary, Sep 4, 12:43:28
- Hopefully not. She is the worst kind of politician (General Chat) - BarclayBazzin, Sep 4, 10:33:09
- You don't like her accent? (n/m) (General Chat) - MonkeyPuzzle, Sep 4, 10:31:51
  - I don't like her in general. Nothing to do with accent (General Chat) - Disco, Sep 4, 11:10:24
- Well at first she was afraid, she was petrified (n/m) (General Chat) - inutero, Sep 4, 10:16:16

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