Housing Secretary Angela Rayner admitted paying the wrong amount of tax on a house purchase . On Friday she’ll likely find out if it’s a career-ending decision.

That’s when Sir Keir Starmer is expected to receive the results of an ethics probe into her tax arrangements from his adviser Sir Laurie Magnus. He is reserving judgement about whether or not she can keep her job .

Rayner insists she was given three separate pieces of legal advice before buying an £800,000 flat in Hove, saving £40,000 in stamp duty by not paying the higher rate reserved for purchasing additional homes.

She says the “mistake” arose because that legal advice did not “properly take account” of her complex situation, which involved a trust set up for her son who has special educational needs, but she has refused

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