Angela Rayner has resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary after admitting she did not pay enough stamp duty on her second home.

She has also quit as deputy leader of the Labour Party, an elected post.

Sir Keir Starmer's second-in-command has stepped down after admitting she should have paid more stamp duty on a home she bought in Hove, East Sussex, as it was her second property.

News of her resignation came just moments after Sir Keir's spokesman revealed the prime minister had received a report on whether she had breached the ministerial code or not from his standards adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, after Ms Rayner referred herself to him earlier this week.

In a letter to Sir Keir announcing her resignation, Ms Rayner said the strain her children have been put through by h

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