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Rayner's severance payment is criticised
Western Daily Press
|October 16, 2025
ANGELA Rayner’s receipt of a ministerial severance payment of nearly £17,000 after quitting the Government over her tax affairs has been branded “outrageous” by the Conservatives.
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Labour's former Cabinet minister resigned as deputy prime minister, housing secretary and the party's deputy leader last month, after an independent ethics enquiry found she had breached the ministerial code over her underpayment of stamp duty on a seaside flat.
This story is from the October 16, 2025 edition of Western Daily Press.
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