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A video of Angela Rayner demanding for a former Conservative minister to be sacked over his tax affairs has resurfaced amid her own tax scandal. Angela Rayner has admitted she underpaid the stamp duty tax bill on her £800,000 Hove property and has referred herself the independent adviser on ministerial standards for investigation. In PMQ’s, Sir Keir Starmer stood by his deputy, despite calls from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch for Ms Rayner to face the sack.

The Deputy Prime Minister posted a video on X on 21 January, 2023, alongside the caption: “Nadhim Zahawi’s story about his tax affairs doesn’t add up. After months of denials, the truth emerges. His position is untenable. Rishi Sunak must dismiss him from his Cabinet.” The video is now circulating on social media, with many demanding her resignation.

In the video, she said: “Every pound of tax that’s not delivered to the Chancellor and to the Exchequer means that it damages our public services, and we know the state they’re in.

“So the former Chancellor, when he was Chancellor last summer, made it clear at the time when he was questioned that he pays all his taxes, and that he’s done everything appropriately and was threatening legal letters to anyone that questioned him.

“Now it’s emerged, actually, that’s not true and there was an HMRC investigation and that he’s had to pay penalties for that. I think that makes his position untenable.”

X users have since responded to the resurfaced video, and said: “Your words have come back to haunt you. Time to do the decent thing and resign.”

Another added: “Aged like milk.”

A third said: “I agree with it makes it untenable for someone to stay in their job. Resign.”

The Deputy Prime Minister avoided paying the full £70,000 in stamp duty when buying her new seaside apartment, instead paying just £30,000. Documents lodged with the Land Registry show that Ms Rayner sold her 25% stake in the Greater Manchester house she shared with her ex-husband, for £162,500.

Speaking to Sky News, the Housing Minister said her living arrangement was “complex” as her first home was sold to a trust following her divorce with Mark Rayner last year. She claims this was to provide stability for her son, who is disabled.

The Deputy Prime Minister now admits she received incorrect tax advice and has since considered “packing it all in”.

Ms Rayner said she was unable to speak on the matters before due to a court order which prevented her from publicising all of the details about her property ownership, yet she applied to the court for permission.