It would be putting it mildly to say that Angela Rayner has had better weeks in politics. The Deputy Prime Minister has been in the spotlight over the last few days after admitting on Wednesday that she had underpaid stamp duty on her third property. While Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave a spirited defence of his second-in-command in PMQs, a number of her lefty colleagues are turning against her over the tax affair mess. One Labour MP remarked to the Telegraph : ‘She said she had thought about resigning, and she should give that some more thought now.’ Ouch.

But it’s not all bad. The palaver could lead to an unlikely alliance: between the deputy Labour leader and the TaxPayers’ Alliance. The organisation has written to Rayner amid her housing scandal, inviting the Red Queen to join the

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