Angela Rayner has been accused of using national security laws to hide the fact that she has the option of three bathrooms in her taxpayer-funded grace-and-favour home.
The Deputy Prime Minister’s officials refused to answer a Parliamentary question about the number of bedrooms in her London residence in Admiralty House, for security and operational reasons’.
However, the Conservatives have discovered through Freedom of Information laws that she enjoys the use of three bedrooms and three bathrooms.
The disclosure is part of a wider endeavour by the Tories to establish whether Ms Rayner is paying her own council tax surcharge on second homes at Admiralty House.
She became known as ‘Two Homes Rayner’ last year after it was revealed she had shuttled between two Right-To-Buy council properties early in her marriage. It was claimed that she rented out her house while living in her husband’s property.
No wrongdoing has been found against Ms Rayner.
Her current council tax payment location is unknown.
Records of MPs’ expenses demonstrate that when she entered government, Ms Rayner designated her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency home as her ‘primary residence’, and a London flat she used to rent as her second.
That allowed her to claim back the £1,621 council tax bill on the flat from the taxpayer as one of the housing costs reimbursed by Commons authorities.
But, having moved into Admiralty House four months before her Local Government Department began imposing an additional 100 per cent council tax charge on second homes, if the Ashton-under-Lyne property is still her primary residence, the £2,034 council tax bill for her grace-and-favour home – and for which she is now liable – doubles to £4,068.
Shadow Cabinet Office minister Mike Wood said: ‘It’s a scandal that Rayner tried to use national security laws to prevent the public from knowing she has three bathrooms all to herself.
‘She claims to be a woman of the people, but this exposes how out of touch she has become… Rayner must use this opportunity to come clean on her council tax bill on this residence.’
A spokesman for Ms Rayner said: ‘Angela has two teenage sons and the flat she has been allocated has enough room for them to be able to stay with her… That’s hardly surprising and most certainly isn’t unprecedented.’
Oh, how quickly ministers and MPs forget their roots once they get into government and experience the gravy train first-hand.
This woman didn’t make it by education or experience. She is only where she is because of being the loudest mouth in the room.
This hypocrisy lies here with Angela Rayner and her condescending philosophy, ‘Do as I say, not as I do.’
The UK is now like a communist country, where the peasants live in poverty while the elite make a fortune and live in luxury!
How easily they forget honesty and openness when they are receiving taxpayer funds. Rayner indeed has her snout deep in the trough.
She’s just another Labour politician who acts like a child in a candy store, grabbing two or three of everything because she believes it’s free. If she were to become the next prime minister, can you imagine what her hands could grasp?
The majority of the Labour Party is made up of nasty hypocrites, like Angela Rayner, who take advantage of any freebies and benefits they can while stifling, stomping on, and gagging the rest of us when they can.
Starmer and his clown party have made it abundantly clear that Labour is not a caring party. Voting for Labour would essentially be voting for someone else to have a better life, so if you’re British-born, don’t do it.
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