DEPUTY PM Angela Rayner has been accused of breaching the ministerial code by asking civil servants to help her move house.
A complaint has been filed after claims private office staff got her set up in the grace-and-favour Admiralty House.
PAAngela Rayner has been accused of breaching the ministerial code by asking civil servants to help her move house[/caption]
Blogger Guido Fawkes alleges they helped move furniture and cleaned at the Grade I listed home.
It led Tory MP Paul Holmes to write to the Cabinet Office.
The Conservative said: “Ministers must ensure no conflict arises between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise.”
Ms Rayner’s department says civil servants provided logistical support, but that she personally paid for removal and cleaning firms.
In November, Rayner had been accused of hypocrisy after plans emerged of cutting back on the council home Right to Buy scheme which she benefited from.
Her Whitehall department was consulting on plans to extend the eligibility criteria from three years’ tenancy up to a decade.
The deputy PM brought her property with a 25 per cent discount off the £79,000 asking price before selling it for a £48,500 profit eight years later.
But she said she was reducing “unfair” discounts brought in by the Tories in 2012 as she oversees a “council house revolution”.
Shadow Housing Secretary Kevin Hollinrake said: “The Right to Buy has helped millions into home ownership.
“Labour are now pulling up the drawbridge on home ownership, making their party the enemy of aspiration and social mobility.
“It is the height if hypocrisy for Angela Rayner to sabotage the policy that helped her move on to and up the housing ladder.”
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