Angela Rayner handling house sale controversy ‘in right way’, says Yvette Cooper

Labour’s deputy leader is being investigated by Greater Manchester police (GMP) over whether she gave false information about her main residence a decade ago.

The controversy relates to whether Rayner paid the right amount of tax on the 2015 sale of her council house on Vicarage Road in Stockport.

Cooper told the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg on Sunday: “Angela welcomes the opportunity to be able to set out all the facts for the police, for HMRC, for the proper authorities, in the hope that that will then just draw a line under all of this.

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Durham police cleared Starmer and Rayner over allegations they broke coronavirus rules by having a takeaway curry with colleagues while campaigning for local elections in 2021.

The force initially investigated and found there was no evidence of rule-breaking, but looked at the case again following the intervention of the Tory MP for North West Durham, Richard Holden.