UK's Deputy PM did not pay full stamp duty on second property
發佈日期: 2025-09-04 00:15
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UK Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has admitted not paying the full amount of stamp duty on a second home.
Rayner has lifted a confidentiality clause showing details about a divorce and a trust set-up for her son who has special educational needs.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Keir Starmer defended his minister for her transparency.
Starmer, speaking in the Commons, said: "She did it to ensure that all information is in the public domain. She has now referred herself to the independent adviser, that is the right thing to do. But I can be clear, I am very proud to sit alongside a Deputy Prime Minister who was building 1.5 million homes, who is bringing the biggest upgrade to workers rights in a generation, and who's come from a working class background to be Deputy Prime Minister of this country."
But opposition leader of the Conservative Party, Kemi Badenoch hit back saying Starmer is a hypocrite: "I'm not sure if you would have heard all that sympathy if it was the conservative Deputy Prime Minister who was being..I remember when the Prime Minister said that tax evasion is a criminal offence and should be treated as all other fraud. If he had a backbone, he would sack her."
