Pressure builds on Rayner as 'dozen police probe her home sale and tax details'

ANGELA RAYNER has “questions to answer” over her home sale controversy, a Cabinet minister said today.

- Nicholas Cecil, John Dunne and Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Greater Manchester Police is investigating Labour’s deputy leader amid the furore over whether she paid the correct capital gains tax on the sale of a house in 2015 and claims over where she was registered to vote.

The force launched the inquiry after repeatedly being pressed to do so by a senior Tory MP. Ms Rayner denies any wrongdoing and the exact details of what the police are investigating have not been made public.

At least a dozen officers are involved in the probe, according to The Times, which also claimed they were examining tax matters and whether Ms Rayner gave false information for the electoral register when she lived between two houses in Stockport after getting married. These details could not be confirmed.

But Chief Secretary to the Treasury Laura Trott told Sky News: “There are obviously lots of questions for Angela to answer on this and for the Labour Party to answer on this.”