Angela Rayner’s failure to get proper tax advice on her house in Hove could be one of those ‘butterfly effect’ moments, where a seemingly trivial incident (like the flap of a butterfly’s wings) sets off a chain of events with precipitous consequences. It could well lead to Keir Starmer’s removal as Labour leader.

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Labour is not unfamiliar with butterfly moments. In 2012, the Labour MP for Falkirk, Eric Joyce, headbutted a Conservative MP in Strangers’ Bar in Parliament, after growling, ‘There are too many fucking Tories in here’. The internal process to select Joyce’s parliamentary successor was so flawed that it encouraged Labour leader Ed Miliband to rewrite the rules for electing his successor, which then inadvertently opene

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