SIR Keir Starmer has kicked off a huge cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner became the 7th Minister to leave the government in controversial circumstances since he came into power.
The Deputy Prime Minister has become the most high profile figure to have quit following her stamp duty controversy.
GettyDeputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has left her post[/caption]
The PM was understood to have been keen to hold on to Rayner but serious failings over her tax affairs meant she had no choice to leave office.
Her departure comes nearly a year after Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigned from her post after failings in correcting police records more than a decade earlier.
Haigh left after in November last year it emerged she had been convicted of fraud over a missing work phone.
In her departure letter, she said whatever the facts of the matter the issue will be a “distraction”.
Treasury Minister Tulip Siddiq resigned as a Treasury Minister back in January this year following growing pressure into an anti-corruption probe in Bangladesh.
She referred herself to the ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus after concerns were raised about her aunt who quite as the country’s PM.
The sleaze adviser said that he had “not identified” evidence of impropriety but hit out at Siddiq that she hadn’t been more aware of the “potential reputational risks” of links to her relative.
Public Health Minister Andrew Gwynne was sacked from his job back in February after comments made in a WhatsApp group.
Gwynne was also suspended from the Labour party after comments made in a group chat called Trigger Me Timbers.
He made a joke about how he hoped a 72-year-old woman would soon be dead after she wrote her her local councillor about bin collections.
It was also claimed that he targeted a constituent joking about them being “mown down” by a truck.
It also follows Rushanara Ali who left government last month after allegations she had increased rent at a property she owned.
She was embroiled in hypocrisy row in the way that she handled the rent rise.
She ended one set of tenants’ fixed-term contract to sell her home. But then she re-listed the property for rent at a higher cost within a six month time frame.
She was embroiled in hypocrisy row in the way that she handled the rent rise.
She ended one set of tenants’ fixed-term contract to sell her home. But then she re-listed the property for rent at a higher cost within a six month time frame.
But the government at the same time was trying to make this illegal under their flagship Renters’ Rights Bill.
Sir Keir also lost Vicky Foxcroft who left her role as a government whip amid a growing row over making £5 billion of benefits cuts.
Anneliese Dodds quit as International Development Minister over cuts to the overseas aid budget and was furious over the government’s decision to nearly halve the spending.
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