Keir Starmer has predicted that Angela Rayner will return to the cabinet, calling his former deputy, who resigned in September after underpaying stamp duty on a property purchase, “hugely talented”.

In an interview with the Observer , the prime minister described Rayner, who left school aged 16 without any qualifications, as “the best social mobility story this country has ever seen”.

Rayner resigned as deputy prime minister and housing secretary after Starmer’s ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, found she had breached the ministerial code over her underpayment of stamp duty on a flat in Hove.

Magnus said Rayner had “acted with integrity” but that her failure to get sufficient advice on how much stamp duty she had to pay amounted to a breach of the code.

Asked in the interview if h

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