Angela Rayner resigns – Today in Focus Extra

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2025-09-05

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Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff talks through the tax row that brought down the now former deputy prime minister. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This afternoon, the fall of Angela Rayner.

  • to the streets of Pompeii, to the gladiators' Colosseum in Rome.

  • We'll walk in the footsteps of Anne Boleyn at the Tower of London.

  • We will unravel the mysteries of the Minoans on the island of Crete.

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  • It came at a moment when Angela Rayner's stock never seemed higher.

  • The Deputy Prime Minister was well liked on Labour's back benches.

  • It was her, after all, who had managed the government's climb down on the welfare bill in June.

  • And she was about to push through the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation.

  • A teenage mum who'd left school at 16,

  • she stood out in Keir Starmer's cabinet as a rare personality and was openly discussed as a leader in waiting.

  • Who else could have styled out those photos vaping on an inflatable kayak this summer?

  • Or sipping a goblet of rosé while wearing a dry robe?

  • Even right-wing news outlets were calling her iconic.

  • But now for Raina.

  • the fall.

  • At noon today,

  • she resigned after the Prime Minister's Ethics Advisor found that she'd breached the ministerial code by underpaying £40,000 of stamp duty on a flat in Hove,

  • 260 miles from her Greater Manchester constituency.

  • So what now for Reina?