Reeves has been renting her family home since moving to No 11 Downing Street.

Sir Keir Starmer has ruled out an investigation into Rachel Reeves after she admitted that she rented out her family home without securing a licence.

The Chancellor referred herself to an independent ethics adviser after being made aware on Wednesday that Southwark council required her to obtain a “selective” licence to let a property.

Reeves has been renting her family home since moving to No 11 Downing Street last July, with the four-bedroom property in Dulwich let out through an agency for £3,200 a month.

A spokesperson for the Chancellor told the Daily Mail that this “was an inadvertent mistake” and she has referred herself “in the spirit of transparency”.

In a letter to the PM, Reeves said: “I since

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