A council has confirmed it will review suggestions that Angela Rayner committed electoral or tax fraud, renewing pressure on the Labour deputy leader.
Rayner, 44, said she lived apart from her husband, the father to two of her children, for the first five years of their marriage, between 2010 and 2015.
Stockport council was asked to investigate whether this was false by the Conservative deputy chairman James Daly in a letter sent on Monday. The letter suggested Rayner may have misled council officials when she said she was living at her house on Vicarage Road rather than her husband’s house a mile away.
Daly asked if Rayner had claimed a single-person discount on council tax on the home, given that neighbours said her brother had
