The shadow foreign secretary insisted Ms Rayner had 'done nothing wrong' despite a bombshell dossier sparking fresh questions over her controversial property dealings.
Labour's David Lammy today defended his party's deputy leader Angela Rayner over her 'complicated' family life amid a deepening row over her housing arrangements.
But Mr Lammy said there was a 'different arrangement and expectation for the Prime Minister' than there was for Ms Rayner, adding: 'We're not yet in Government.' But the Mail on Sunday studied dozens of postings made by Ms Rayner on social media during that period showing her life with her children and cats at her husband's address.
Labour's David Lammy defended Ms Rayner over her 'complicated' family life amid the deepening row over her housing arrangements 'She played by the rules but, yes, like everybody else she had a complicated life and spent time in her husband's place but also her place. Lots of families do that.' The address on Lowndes Lane - around a mile from Ms Rayner's property on Vicarage Road, which she insisted was her home
The Mail on Sunday first revealed in February that a new biography of Ms Rayner by Lord Ashcroft had established that she used the Thatcherite right-to-buy policy to purchase a former council house in Vicarage Road, Stockport, in 2007, making a £48,500 profit when she sold the house eight years later.
The Labour deputy leader often wrote captions with her Twitter posts, above, that show she was 'home' with her sons at Lowndes LaneThe unusual arrangement enabled her to avoid capital gains tax on the sale of the former council house and by retaining the property for more than five years she avoided having to return some of the price discount to the council.
In the face of mounting scepticism, Ms Rayner – who expects to be Britain's next deputy prime minister – doubled-down on her story, saying two weeks later: 'Vicarage Road was my principal property.... my house was my house at Vicarage Road and I paid all my bills there, that was my home.'
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