Angela Rayner resigns: deputy PM quits over report into tax affairs, Lucy Powell sacked as leader of Commons

[Celerity]

The prime minister’s deputy quit after a report by Sir Laurie Magnus found she had broken the ministerial code by failing to pay stamp duty

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/angela-rayner-resigns-latest-news-keir-starmer-p8l9mmrpj

https://archive.ph/gkNLC









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[muriel_volestrangler]

1. Ian Murray, Scotland Secretary, apparently out as well

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/05/angela-rayner-stamp-duty-labour-starmer-reform-nigel-farage-uk-politics-live-news-updates

Any ideas why Starmer thinks we can do better than Powell and Murray? They're both low-profile, I'd say, but I can't see brilliant replacements queuing up.

Rayner's resignation looked inevitable after the report; she was careless about stamp duty, and having made her name with attacks on dodgy Tories, she'd have had no way of remaining Housing Secretary without constant attacks about "double standards".

[Tanuki]

2. Larry remains Cat!

Link to tweet

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Now it's musical chairs

Shabana Mahmood from Justice to Home; Yvette Cooper from Home to Foreign; David Lammy from Foreign to Justice, plus picking up "Deputy PM" (can he keep that if the party elects someone else as Deputy Party Leader? I'd think not.)
Plus several other changes.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/sep/05/angela-rayner-stamp-duty-labour-starmer-reform-nigel-farage-uk-politics-live-news-updates