Angela Rayner is continuing to come under scrutiny over claims that she avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale of her ex-council house in Stockport
Thr claims firstsurfaced in Tory donor Michael Ashcroft’s biography of her life and Bury North MP James Daly asked police to investigate whether she had given false information or broken electoral rules.
At the time Greater Manchester Police said that there was no case to answer but Daly has continued to raise questions about whether the house was her principal residence at the time, a distinction which could have had an impact on how much tax she owed when it was sold.
Daly has now written to Greater Manchester Police accusing it of failing to carry out a full investigation into whether Labour’s deputy leader broke the law
A GMP Spokesperson said: “We have received a complaint regarding our decision not to investigate an allegation and are in the process of reassessing this decision. The complainant will be updated with the outcome of the reassessment in due course.”
Rayner told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that if Mr Daly, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt published their tax details for the last 15 years, she would do the same. “If you show me yours, then I’ll show you mine,” she said.
