British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned after she admitted underpaying property tax on a new home, in a fresh blow for her boss, Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Rayner, 45, is the eighth, and the most senior, ministerial departure from Starmer's team, and the most damaging yet after the British leader offered her his full support when she was first accused of deliberately trying to avoid paying the correct tax rate.

"I deeply regret my decision to not seek additional specialist tax advice ... I take full responsibility for this error," Rayner said in her letter to Starmer.

Starmer said in response on Friday that he was very sad that her time in government had ended in this way but she had reached the right decision.

With Labour trailing Britain's populist Reform UK in the

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