Rayner a 'massive hypocrite', says ex-Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson

Angela Rayner is simply a "massive hypocrite" for failing to wage capable stamp work connected her home, erstwhile Scottish Tory person Ruth Davidson has said.

Speaking to Beth Rigby connected the Sky News Electoral Dysfunction podcast, Ms Davidson said the lawman premier minister's autumn from her "high horse" would beryllium "pretty high" fixed her past criticisms of Tory politicians.

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But Harriet Harman, the erstwhile Labour lawman leader, said it would an "absolute travesty" if Ms Rayner, the lodging secretary, had to "go for the chop".

Speaking to the Electoral Dysfunction podcast connected Wednesday, the lawman premier curate became tearful aft she admitted she did not wage the close magnitude of stamp work connected the acquisition of her 2nd home.

Ms Rayner claimed she received incorrect taxation proposal and spoke to her household astir "packing it each in".

She has besides referred herself to the autarkic advisor connected ministerial standards.

Ms Rayner, who is besides the lodging secretary, has been nether scrutiny aft a study successful The Daily Telegraph claimed she avoided £40,000 successful stamp work connected a level successful Hove by removing her sanction from the deeds of different spot successful Greater Manchester.

In a lengthy statement, she said it was a "complex surviving arrangement" arsenic her archetypal location was sold to a spot pursuing her divorcement to supply stableness for her teenage son, who has lifelong disabilities and is the sole beneficiary of the trust.

She said archetypal ineligible proposal was that the modular complaint of stamp work applied, but pursuing media reports, she sought adept counsel who said much taxation was due.

Baroness Davidson said the saga made Ms Rayner "a monolithic hypocrite due to the fact that she would ne'er fto idiosyncratic disconnected with the rationale that she's enactment forward".

She added: "But arsenic a quality being, I tin look astatine her, I tin spot her being upset, and I tin spot however it mightiness person happened."

The Tory adjacent said determination were "legitimate questions" astir "why did the lodging curate that makes the rules interruption the rules?"

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"She took the champion advice, but nevertheless, the rules were broken. And that is an utterly morganatic question.

"And I deliberation the autumn from your precocious equine is beauteous high. Angela Rayner was the onslaught dog. Her ain words are 'there's 1 regularisation for them and 1 for everybody else."

Baroness Harman said she believed Ms Rayner's lawsuit was "a communicative not conscionable astir paying the close magnitude of stamp work - it's astir however you really beryllium a parent successful nationalist beingness of a kid with disabilities".

"I americium truthful afloat of admiration that this pistillate who's had a child, 1 of her children with disabilities, and each the knowing that brings with her and what it's similar warring for and bringing up a kid with disabilities.

"And I deliberation that it would beryllium an implicit travesty if the, premier minister's morals adviser, erstwhile she has taken advice, says, arsenic it turns out, the proposal was incorrect and truthful you've got to spell for the chop."