As much as Labour’s spin doctors wanted to dismiss the story yesterday’s local election campaign launch was overshadowed by Labour Deputy Leader Angela Rayner’s failure to satisfactorily explain herself. This morning’s newspapers are (finally) all over the issue Guido has been drumming on about for weeks;
- “How Angela Rayner could go from Labour’s trump card to their millstone“ opines the Telegraph.
- “Pressure builds on Angela Rayner over council house claims” – Times
- “Rayner denies wrongdoing over council house sale amid police review“ – Guardian
- “Angela Rayner refuses to publish tax records as police probe house sale“ – FT
- “Why won’t Rayner come clean on tax?” – Daily Mail
- “UK cannot install Angela Rayner as Deputy PM with unanswered tax-dodging allegations hanging over her” – Sun
- “Rayner on the ropes: Labour’s deputy leader flounders over housing row” – Mail
- “Angela Rayner insists she did nothing wrong over house sale“ – BBC
- “Angela Rayner will not publish ‘personal tax advice’ over council house sale“ – Sky News
The truth will out and this will not go away until she answers the questions which she obfuscates over. Why do the neighbours say she is lying about where she really lived? Wasn’t her brother really renting the house she pretends she lived at and where she kept herself on the electoral roll? Why doesn’t she publish the recent tax advice? As much as Labour keep trying to make out this is a non-story, it clearly isn’t. The press is only seeking the same kind of transparency she demanded of others…
