'Rayner to focus on facts not the gossip in dispute'

Published date15 April 2024
Publication titleEvening Chronicle
It comes after The Sunday Times reported that her former aide said there was "no doubt in my mind that this was Ms Rayner's family home" when he visited her at what she says was her husband's address in 2014

Police are investigating whether Labour's deputy leader broke electoral law after Tory allegations that she may have given false information about her main residence a decade ago.

Ms Rayner has promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime over the accusations, but said she "followed the rules at all times".

Ms Cooper told BBC One's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that Ms Rayner is "very keen" to set out the facts to police and HMRC.

She said: "It allows her to set out all the facts - not...

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