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Angela Rayner’s claims to haven’t damaged any guidelines over her property dealings have been blown aside by a Mail on Sunday investigation into her actual ‘residence’.
Labour’s Deputy Chief has insisted for six weeks that for a few years her ‘principal property’ was a home in Stockport, the place she claimed to stay individually from her husband and youngsters for the primary 5 years of her marriage.
Now this newspaper has disproved her story by finding out dozens of postings made by Ms Rayner on social media throughout that interval displaying her life along with her youngsters and cats at her husband’s tackle.
One of many images from the property she claims to not have lived at was even posted with the caption ‘simply received residence’. In each case the place there’s a image, the backdrop is the husband’s home.
Angela Rayner posted this image on Twitter in 2014 (left) and on the precise is the property agent {photograph} displaying the identical cushion
She stated that she was ‘simply again from work’ and included an image of her two cats, Woozle and Tilly, sitting on her lap, pictured above
The identical couch could be seen in property brokers’ footage when the Lowndes Lane home in Stockport was put up on the market the next yr
It means Ms Rayner probably faces a legal conviction and a superb for a false declaration on the electoral roll – and underneath tax guidelines, married {couples} and civil {couples} can usually solely rely one property as their foremost residence at anybody time. The mother-of-three has refused to publish tax recommendation which she claims exonerates her – and has not proven it to celebration chief Sir Keir Starmer.
Tory MP James Daly stated as we speak: ‘These staggering revelations appear to point out that Angela Rayner has not been telling the reality about essentially the most primary details. Keir Starmer has stated he has full confidence in her however has refused to think about any proof.
‘That is now a query about his management and whether or not he’s glad to have a deputy incapable of being simple with the general public.’
The Mail on Sunday first revealed in February {that a} new biography of Ms Rayner by Lord Ashcroft had established that she used the Thatcherite right-to-buy coverage to buy a former council home in Vicarage Street, Stockport, in 2007, making a £48,500 revenue when she offered the home eight years later.
She confronted accusations of hypocrisy as a result of she has criticised the flagship Tory scheme for ‘serving to to gas the housing disaster’ by depleting publicly owned inventory.
Paperwork seen by the MoS confirmed that Ms Rayner was registered on the electoral roll at Vicarage Street for 5 years after she married Mark Rayner in 2010, whereas he was listed at an tackle in Lowndes Lane a mile away.
When Ms Rayner re-registered the births of two of her youngsters in 2010 she gave her tackle as her husband’s home.
A chef figurine, circled, is seen in an image uploaded by Ms Rayner to Fb, left, and images uploaded by an property agent, proper
Ms Rayner put this image on Fb in 2015 – displaying a toddler in entrance of the chef figurine
The kitchen of the Lowndes Lane property – in footage taken by an property agent
The tackle on Lowndes Lane – round a mile from Ms Rayner’s property on Vicarage Street, which she insisted was her residence
The bizarre association enabled her to keep away from capital beneficial properties tax on the sale of the previous council home and by retaining the property for greater than 5 years she prevented having to return a number of the worth low cost to the council.
She might even have earned a 25 per cent single-occupancy low cost on her council tax. Residents at Vicarage Street stated Ms Rayner had described herself because the ‘landlady’ at her home, and that they not often noticed her.
In response to the story, an outraged Ms Rayner insisted that Vicarage Street was her residence, saying: ‘I purchased my council home again in 2007. I owned my own residence, lived there, paid the payments there and was registered to vote there, previous to promoting the home in 2015.
‘All earlier than I used to be an MP. As with the vast majority of peculiar individuals who promote their very own houses, I used to be not accountable for capital beneficial properties tax as a result of it was my residence and the one one I owned.’
Within the face of mounting scepticism, Ms Rayner – who expects to be Britain’s subsequent deputy prime minister – doubled-down on her story, saying two weeks later: ‘Vicarage Street was my principal property…. my home was my home at Vicarage Street and I paid all my payments there, that was my residence.’
However evaluation of a number of social media posts on platforms similar to Twitter again to 2010 present Ms Rayner stress-free at Lowndes Lane.
In a typical instance from March 2014, she posted that she was ‘simply again from work’ with an image of her two cats, Woozle and Tilly, sitting on her lap.
The identical couch could be seen in property brokers’ footage when the Lowndes Lane home was put up on the market the next yr.
The Labour Deputy Chief usually wrote captions along with her Twitter posts, above, that present she was ‘residence’ along with her sons at Lowndes Lane, prime. The Mail on Sunday has eliminated the sons’ names from the posts to guard their anonymity
The Mail on Sunday has eliminated the sons’ names from the posts to guard their anonymity
The Mail on Sunday has eliminated the sons’ names from the posts to guard their anonymity
One other, from April 2014, learn ‘simply received residence’ and included an image of one in every of her boys enjoying towards a Lowndes Lane backdrop. And one from 2012 stated ‘I can cook dinner’, with an image of her youngsters within the Lowndes Lane kitchen.
Our revelations come after various neighbours contradicted Ms Rayner’s claims about her residing preparations, with Sylvia Hampson, a Lowndes Lane resident, calling her a ‘f***ing liar’ for saying she didn’t stay there.
Stockport Council has stated it is going to overview allegations of electoral or tax fraud, whereas native police stated they’d look once more on the case following an preliminary determination to not examine.
Her failure to launch paperwork associated to the affair has led to accusations of ‘double requirements’, given how vehemently Ms Rayner demanded Rishi Sunak’s spouse reply questions on her tax affairs simply earlier than her husband grew to become Prime Minister.
A Labour spokesman stated as we speak: ‘Angela and her husband mutually determined to keep up their current residences to mirror their household’s circumstances and so they shared childcare obligations.
‘Angela has at all times made clear she additionally hung out at her husband’s property after they had youngsters and received married. She was completely entitled to take action.’
Ever since we questioned the accuracy of her electoral roll entry, Angela Rayner has insisted she lived individually from her household and husband. Her Tweets inform a VERY completely different story
They’re scenes of home bliss – a mom having fun with residence life along with her husband, three youngsters and two cats known as Woozle and Tilly.
Sadly for Angela Rayner, in addition they contradict her repeated claims that the home during which the photographs had been taken was not her residence.
The Mail on Sunday has studied greater than 30 social media posts by Labour’s Deputy chief between 2010 and 2015, when Ms Rayner claims to have been residing at a property in Vicarage Street, Stockport – somewhat than a mile away in Lowndes Lane along with her husband and youngsters.
Dozens of postings made by Ms Rayner on social media present her life along with her youngsters and cats at her husband’s tackle in 2014
Considered one of her cats is seen subsequent to a multi-coloured cushion on this put up from 2014
One other put up of one in every of her cats on the patchwork-style couch
As she gears up for the 2015 normal election, she posts a picture on Fb of her doing an interview – in entrance of the identical multi-coloured cushion
The cushion is seen in property agent images taken in 2015 when the property went up on the market
Beneath tax guidelines, married {couples} and civil {couples} can usually solely rely one property as their foremost residence at anybody time, leaving her accountable for capital beneficial properties tax on the sale of Vicarage Street. It’s also an offence to make a false declaration on the electoral roll.
Of those posts, eighteen comprise footage; in each case the place the background is identifiable it’s Lowndes Lane – as confirmed by cross-checking the photographs with the photographs which had been taken when the home was put available on the market in 2015. Lots of these posted are proven right here.
Ms Rayner grew to become an MP later that yr and moved to her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.
Not one of the footage present her residing at Vicarage Street, the place she remained on the electoral register till 2015 – and the place the neighbours describe her because the little-seen ‘landlady’.
The posts overwhelmingly contradict Ms Rayner’s declare that Vicarage Street was her ‘principal property’ and ‘my residence’.
A put up on X, previously Twitter, in November 2012 – 5 years after she purchased the Vicarage Street property and three years earlier than she offered it – says ‘I can cook dinner’, alongside an image of two of her youngsters who’re standing on the black flooring tiles of the kitchen in Lowndes Lane.
Ms Rayner posts an image of a canvas by Scottish artist Alexander Millar
The identical canvas is seen hanging above the fireside within the property agent images
One other, taken the identical month, reads ‘play-Doh!!!’ subsequent to an image of one in every of her youngsters enjoying with the substance – with the Lowndes Lane backyard clearly seen via the kitchen home windows.
In March 2014 Ms Rayner posts that she is ‘simply again from work’ – and sitting along with her cats on a settee which is within the Lowndes Lane footage; In April 2014 she writes ‘simply received residence’, and posts an image from the kitchen in that property.
Woozle and Tilly function prominently – however by no means at Vicarage Street.
In October 2014 Ms Rayner publishes an image of spider operating throughout Lowndes Lane toilet tiles, saying: ‘This dangerous boy ran throughout the toilet flooring as I used to be on the throne’.
A second put up later that day exhibits one of many cats enjoying with one thing on the Lowndes Lane couch. Ms Rayner writes: ‘I believe my cat as received no less than one of many #spiders,,,mess with me and ya mess with my cat!’
It’s clear from the posts that her three youngsters lived in Lowndes Lane.
In October 2013 Ms Rayner posts a picture from her ‘teenager’s room’, which is clearly identifiable from the property brokers’ footage as a transformed attic in Lowndes Lane; in February 2015 she posts that her ‘boys are residence’ – with an image of her two youngest youngsters in entrance of the Lowndes Lane tiles and cupboards once more.
In October 2013 Ms Rayner posts a picture from her ‘teenager’s room’
The property brokers’ footage present the transformed attic in Lowndes Lane
That very same month, as she gears up for the 2015 normal election, she posts a picture of her doing an interview from the couch at Lowndes Lane.
Different tweets clarify that she was residing in the identical home as her youngsters and husband: in July 2013 she wrote: ‘My two lovable cherub like boys are an exquisite factor to get up to as they scream at one another and combat over toys!’ She provides: ‘I can hear the youngest ordering his dad round like a servant! Who is aware of the place it will get that from?!’
One other from the identical yr says: ‘Off to Bingo tonight to flee the footy’.
The proof will put Sir Keir Starmer in a particularly tough place. The Labour chief has stated he backs Ms Rayner’s determination to not publish the tax recommendation, regardless of having not seen it himself: he stated he didn’t really feel the necessity to learn the doc as a result of he trusted his deputy.
Ms Rayner has stated: ‘Vicarage Street was my principal property…. my home was my home at Vicarage Street and I paid all my payments there, that was my residence.’
In October 2014 Ms Rayner publishes an image of spider operating throughout Lowndes Lane toilet tiles
She has additionally stated: ‘It was my property. There was by no means any query about that in my thoughts. And I paid the payments there. I stayed there, my brother stayed there, he stayed at completely different numerous factors’.
And in an extended assertion she stated: ‘I purchased my council home again in 2007. I owned my own residence, lived there, paid the payments there and was registered to vote there, previous to promoting the home in 2015.
‘All earlier than I used to be an MP. My husband already owned his own residence independently and I had an older baby from a earlier relationship.
‘Our son was born simply 23 weeks into my being pregnant and spent eight months in intensive care. He’s legally blind. We mutually determined to keep up our current residences to mirror our circumstances.’
Ms Rayner first appeared on the electoral roll at Vicarage Street in 2004 as Angela Bowen.
In January 2007 she purchased it underneath the right-to-buy scheme for £79,000, having obtained a reduction of £26,000; in 2008 her second son – her first baby with Mark Rayner – was born; in 2009 one other son is born. Each start certificates give her tackle as Vicarage Street.
In 2010 the electoral roll listed Angela Bowen as residing at Vicarage Street and Mark Rayner at Lowndes Lane – mysteriously, not along with her however along with her brother, Darren Bowen.
When Angela and Mark marry that September she offers her tackle on the wedding certificates as 80 Vicarage Street; he offers Lowndes Lane.
However when she then re-registers her childrens’ start certificates that yr she offers her tackle as 126 Lowndes Lane.
By 2013 she remains to be on the electoral roll at Vicarage Street – however is now listed as Angela Rayner; Mark Rayner and Darren Bowen are listed at Lowndes Lane.
Ms Rayner stays on the roll at Vicarage Street till 2015 when she sells the property for £127,500, banking the £48,500 revenue.
In April 2016 the Lowndes Lane home was offered for £145,250. That very same month the Rayners moved to a £375,000 home in her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency.
The home was put in Angela’s title solely, however in October 2022 it was transferred to Mr Rayner’s title solely as a part of divorce proceedings.
This weekend, The Mail on Sunday spoke to a former Lowndes Lane resident who stated: ‘Angela Rayner undoubtedly lived there with Mark. I keep in mind she had an older boy, whose bed room was within the attic, after which two youngsters with Mark.
‘Angela was residing there once we moved in round 2009 and was nonetheless there once we moved out in 2012. Their automobiles had been on the driveway on a regular basis .
‘She wasn’t simply visiting, she lived there. Once we left in 2012, she was beginning to turn out to be extra outstanding within the Labour celebration and extra well-known.’
