LABOUR’S deputy leader Angela Rayner faces fresh calls to come clean in the capital gains tax row — despite laying bare details of her family life.
She continued to deny that she owed up to £3,000 in tax from the 2015 sale of her right to buy house in Stockport.
Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner faces fresh calls to come clean in the capital gains tax rowPA
The mum-of-three says the property was her main home — despite marrying five years earlier and spending time at her husband’s home.
She told journalists yesterday: “My son was born at 23 weeks.
“I spent eight months in intensive care with him, I wasn’t really bothered about where my clothes were on a certain night.”
But Tory MP Jonathan Gullis said she “still has questions to answer”.
She is under fire over the 2015 sale of the Stockport semi she bought using right-to-buy.
She has criticised the policy and her party wants it scrapped.
While Ms Rayner has hit back at claims of hypocrisy, she is refusing to answer questions about her financial affairs.
They arose after she publicly stated she was not liable to pay thousands in capital gains tax on a £48,500 profit on the sale, despite appearing to live at another property in the Greater Manchester town.
She bought the council house in 2007 and said she lived there until it was sold — despite getting married in 2010 and her husband, Mark, owning another home.
However, neighbours claim that, in fact, only her brother was living at the property.
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