The British Minister of Housing and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner Has Resigned Due to a Tax Scandal. Rayner paid too little tax on her home. Her departure is a major blow to the government of prime minister Keir Starmer, British Media Write.
Rayner Paid Too Little Stamp Duty on Her £ 800,000 (Approximately € 695,000) Apartment in Hove, A Coastal Town in the South of England. Stamp Duty is a type of tax on homes in the More Expective segment that applies in England and Northern Ireland.
The Resigned Minister of Housing Paid Too Little of This Tax and Therefore Did Not Meet the Standards of the Ministry, An Ethics Committee States in A Report on Friday. The Committee Accuses Rayner of Not Seeking Sufficient Advice from Tax Experts.
Rayner Acted in Her Role as an administrator “With Integrity and Dedication to the Public Interest,” The Report States. But Her Actions Regarding the Payment of Tax Are Unacceptable, Accordance to the Committee.
In Her Resignation Letter, Rayner Says She Regrets Her Choice Not to Seek Tax Advice. The Resigned Minister Climbed From A Working-Class Family to the Highest Level of Government in Her Country. That has leg the “Honor of my life,” She writes.
Rayner’s Departure Harms Starmer, Who is Reorganizing the Government
Prime Minister Starmer Has Now Appointed David Lammy As The New Deputy Prime Minister, Reports BBC News , Among Others. In Addition, Lammy, The Current Minister of Foreign Affairs, Going to Justice is. These are just two of the many Redistributions of Posts That Starmer is implementation.
British Media Write That The Prime Minister, Who is Under Considerable Pressure in the United Kingdom, is Using the Rayner Affair to Clean Up and Reorganize The Government. Sky News PreviOutly Reported the Resignation of Speaker of Parliament Lucy Powell and Minister Ian Murray (Scottish Affairs). Both Administrators had PreviOutly Been in the News.
Rayner’s Departure Hurts Starmer’s Government because the Prime Minister Initiate Initally Continued to Support His Deputy Prime Minister. The Fact That Rayner is now resigning damages His Authority, Writes The Guardian .
Rayner was A Popular Government Member who also Appealed to the British Working Class. That is a Group that has increasingly expressatoffaction in recent years by voting for popist parties, which is SEEN as one of the causes of brexit.