The row over Angela Rayner’s previous living arrangements deepened on Saturday as her former aide reportedly wrote to police contradicting her claims.
She was registered at an ex-council house she bought in Stockport, but it is understood Conservative Party deputy chairman James Daly has suggested neighbours say she lived with her husband at a separate property. He visited her around the time she became a parliamentary candidate at an address in Lowndes Lane, Stockport, in the summer of 2014, according to the paper.
Ms Rayner has promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime over the accusations, but said she “followed the rules at all times”.Sir Keir Starmer has welcomed the police investigation into Ms Rayner’s living arrangements and said he had “full confidence” in her. However, Scott Wortley, a law lecturer at Edinburgh University, pointed out that any potential prosecution should have been launched within a year of the suspected crime.