Angela Rayner effectively threw her hat into the ring for the Labour leadership by announcing that she has paid £40,000 to settle her wrangling with HMRC over unpaid stamp duty.

Angela Rayner has said she has been cleared of deliberate wrongdoing in an investigation over her tax affairs, paving the way for a potential leadership bid amid uncertainty over Sir Keir Starmer’s fu...

Rayner – unlike the rest of us – had access to “two leading tax lawyers” to fight her case for her, according to The Guardian.