Rishi Sunak takes aim at Keir Starmer over Angela Rayner probe and says Labour leader should ‘read her tax advice’
RISHI Sunak today took aim at Sir Keir Starmer as he told the Labour chief he should read over Angela Rayner’s tax advice.
At a fiery PMQs, Mr Sunak insisted Sir Keir should focus on the “two homes” scandal plaguing his party rather than spending time making jibes at Liz Truss.
The Labour chief has previously admitted he hasn’t personally scanned legal advice the deputy opposition boss claims clears her name.
In the Commons Sir Keir said: “I am privileged to be the proud owner of a copy of the former prime minister’s new book. It is a rare unsigned copy. It is the only unsigned copy.
“It is quite the read. She claims the Tory Party’s disastrous kamikaze budget that triggered chaos for millions was – her words – ‘the happiest moment of her premiership’.
“Has the Prime Minister met anyone with a mortgage who agrees?”
A defiant Mr Sunak replied: “All I would say is he ought to spend a bit less time reading that book and a bit more time reading the deputy leader’s tax advice.”
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Hitting back, Sir Keir accused the PM of being a “billionaire whose family used schemes to avoid millions of pounds of tax smearing a working class woman”
It comes as a police probe into Ms Rayner is now looking at multiple allegations on top of her council house row.
Labour’s deputy leader is currently being investigated by cops over allegations she broke election law over her former home.
But Greater Manchester cops are also probing tax matters on top of the highly publicized question of whether she gave false information for the electoral register.
A source told The Times: “It’s very well-resourced, it’s not a single issue.
“There is a volume of material and a clear public interest to fully investigate.”
Questions have been raised over whether Rayner, 44, gave false information for the electoral register during the 2010s.
Rayner was registered at her house in Stockport, Greater Manchester, but neighbours say she lived elsewhere with her then-husband.
She has promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime but has said that she took expert legal and tax advice and was confident she had done nothing wrong.