The deputy leader brings warmth to the otherwise austere Labour leadership team
Angela Rayner launching the party’s campaign for the May local elections She has become a favourite target for attack by her opponents precisely because she does not share the life story of your typical frontbench politician. No PPE at Oxford University for her, like the shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves; she left school without qualifications to look after her baby, later passing an NVQ to work as a carer.
Ashcroft’s researchers have unearthed that Rayner bought her council house home under right-to-buy. Rather than celebrate the Thatcherite upward mobility of a left winger, they suggest that she may not have paid capital gains tax when she sold her home nine years ago. Her then husband, Mark, also owned a home which he later sold. It turns out that married couples are only entitled to tax exemption on a single property.
Even though this is the sort of accounting error they may have on their own annual tax returns, and although they may have several properties, Conservative critics, including Chancellor Jeremy Hunt and the Tory-inclined press, have suggested Rayner should be investigated. HMRC and Greater Manchester Police had both said they see no case to answer but this week the police took up the case again following renewed complaints from a Conservative MP.
This is a petty matter and not the first time Rayner has provided a juicy target. She is open about being an attractive forty-four year old woman, confiding to theafter having children. At this week’s Labour local election launch she joked that she had “one-up” on Keir Starmer’s similar childhood “insecurities and hardships” because “I had to endure it as a ginger”.
Like her or hate her, Rayner knows what she is doing, backed up by her experience as a single parent, as a carer for a disabled mother and son and as a Unison trade union official. She is also someone who has taken, and has had to take, risks in a colourful life. No CGT issue will topple her from her Doc Marten boots. Starmer tried and failed to demote her early on when his leadership was in the doldrums. Now Labour is riding high, she says they get on like a couple on.
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