‘It’s a disgrace’: Rayner’s constituents call for her resignation after stamp duty row

In Ashton-under-Lyne there is little sympathy for the deputy prime minister’s tax troubles

“I’ve got to pay my taxes and so has she, it’s as simple as that,” Andrew Davies, 57, said, a common view on the streets of Angela Rayner’s Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.

On Wednesday, the deputy prime minister acknowledged for the first time that she had mistakenly not paid the correct amount of stamp duty when she bought a flat in Hove earlier this year.

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