{"id":121689,"date":"2025-09-05T11:41:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121689\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T11:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:41:25","slug":"angela-rayner-resigns-from-government-over-failure-to-pay-enough-tax-on-flat-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121689\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Rayner resigns from government over failure to pay enough tax on flat – live updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Analysis\"A devastating end for Rayner and a long list of unanswered questions for Starmerpublished at 12:09 British Summer Time<\/p>\n

12:09 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Henry Zeffman
Chief political correspondent<\/p>\n

Having overcome a difficult upbringing and personal adversity to climb the heights of the Labour Party and become only its second ever deputy prime minister, it has all come to a premature end within just 14 months of government. <\/p>\n

It has pretty devastating implications for Keir Starmer too. Right now there is a long list of unanswered questions.<\/p>\n

When will a deputy leadership election take place? Who will stand? Will a candidate who wants to force the government into a more left-wing position make it onto the ballot paper? <\/p>\n

Or, as some believe the Labour rulebook permits, could the cabinet designate an interim deputy leader from among their number who would, in time, be anointed permanently?<\/p>\n

Would Starmer commit to appointing a new deputy leader to the position of deputy prime minister as well? Would any new deputy leader want that, or would they rather establish a new powerbase on the backbenches?<\/p>\n

Could Starmer even revisit Jeremy Corbyn\u2019s attempt to abolish the deputy leadership? That was mooted to me by one insider this morning, acknowledging that it would be a terrible look but musing on whether it might be a less terrible option than the others. <\/p>\n

Who will be the new housing secretary, responsible for delivering one of the government\u2019s most ambitious and important policy commitments, on housebuilding?<\/p>\n

Will the prime minister use this as an opportunity to carry out a much wider shakeup of his cabinet and ministerial team, or will he want to minimise the political drama?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll begin to find out the answers to some of these questions over the coming hours and days. Other questions – such as the impact on the government\u2019s popularity of its housing secretary being forced to resign for having underpaid tax on a home – will take longer to answer.<\/p>\n

Safe to say this isn\u2019t how \u201cphase two\u201d of Starmer\u2019s government was meant to begin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A devastating end for Rayner and a long list of unanswered questions for Starmerpublished at 12:09 British Summer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-121689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}