As any political adviser worth their salt will attest, it's never too soon to start privately preparing for your candidate's future leadership bid. Yet going too early with registering that all-important website risks telegraphing one's intentions even before the starting gun has fired. Whoever is behind the site bearing her name, Angela Rayner is now facing awkward questions after it emerged that an unfinished site apparently touting her for Labour's top job had briefly appeared online.
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But there will not be an early election, Jones said. Asked about Reform UK leader Nigel Farage's suggestion that Rayner's resignation would open up internal Labour splits and prompt a general election as early as 2027, the chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster told Sky News: Nigel Farage is wrong there. The Labour party is not going to split and there won't be an early election.
Nigel Farage said he thinks there is "every chance now of a general election happening in 2027" as he addressed Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham shortly after Angela Rayner resigned on Friday, 5 September. The Reform leader warned of a big rift in Labour and told attendees in a keynote speech: Before long, there'll be Labour MPs that reckon they've got a better chance on the Jeremy Corbyn sectarian ticket
As you know, on Wednesday I referred myself to your independent adviser on ministerial standards, Sir Laurie Magnus, to conduct a thorough investigation into my personal financial circumstances after I became aware that it is likely I inadvertently paid the incorrect rate for stamp duty land tax (SDLT). I have always taken my responsibilities as deputy prime minister, secretary of state for housing, communities and local government, as well as a member of parliament with the utmost seriousness.
It feels like crunch time for Angela Rayner. Plenty of folk at Westminster reckon today is the day her fate will be determined. The prime minister told me yesterday he expected the investigation by the independent adviser on ministerial standards to be quick and he thought that was a good thing. That suggests Sir Keir won't prevaricate in offering his own judgement about Sir Laurie Magnus's findings once he himself has them.
Angela Rayner used a small, high-street conveyancing firm for the purchase of the 800,000 Hove flat at the centre of a damaging tax row, the Guardian has learned. The deputy prime minister employed Verrico & Associates, a family firm based in Herne Bay, Kent, to complete the transaction, according to legal documents seen by the Guardian. Rayner has said she asked for legal advice before buying the flat
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