Keir Starmer’s spokesperson repeatedly refused to say if Rachel Reeves had broken the ministerial code after she admitted to breaking property rules.

Following reporting from the Daily Mail, the chancellor wrote to the prime minister on Wednesday night confirming she had failed to obtain a “selective” rental licence for her family home in London.

She apologised for the “inadvertent error”, and claimed she had immediately applied for a licence – actions which Starmer declared were a “sufficient resolution” to such errors, according to the Ministerial Code.

Speaking just a month after his deputy prime minister Angela Rayner had to resign after not paying enough stamp duty, Starmer said he was happy the “matter can be drawn to a close” following a consultation with his ethics advi

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