Angela Rayner has insisted she will not publish the tax advice she received on the sale of her council house, as the Labour Party’s deputy leader faced fresh scrutiny over her living situation a decade ago.
Ms Rayner said she would only release the “personal” information if the Conservatives calling for her to do so publish theirs – insisiting she had done “absolutely nothing wrong”.
It comes after Greater Manchester Police said it was reassessing its decision not to investigate allegations she gave false information on official documents, after pressure from Conservative Party deputy chairman James Daly.
Ms Rayner has faced questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax on the 2015 sale of her council house due to confusion over whether it was her principal residency.
The senior Labour MP on Thursday again insisted she had “done absolutely nothing wrong” and took legal advice that no rules were broken.
Asked why she would not publish that advice, Ms Rayner told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Because that’s my personal tax advice. But I’m happy to comply with the necessary authorities that want to see that.”
She said she would hand over the information to the police and HMRC, “but I’m not going to put out all of my personal details for the last 15 years about my family”.
Ms Rayner said if Mr Daly, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt published their tax details for the last 15 years, she would do the same.
“If you show me yours, then I’ll show you mine,” she said.
Ms Rayner has rejected suggestions in a book by former Tory deputy chairman Lord Ashcroft that she failed to properly declare her main home.
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