The New Statesman Podcast

Angela Rayner's taxes: scandal for Labour? or a Tory smear campaign?

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Episode notes

Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, is being accused of being a ‘tax avoider’. While these attacks are coming predominantly from the right, they’ve been mounting in recent weeks and now Labour is having to confront the allegations.


So what could this mean for the deputy leader? Is Labour in trouble? Or is this a Tory smear campaign?


Anoosh Chakelian, Britain editor at the New Statesman, is joined in the studio by political correspondent Freddie Hayward; this episode was recorded on Thursday 11th April.


Read the pieces mentioned in this podcast: Is Angela Rayner in danger?; What Dominic Raab missed about Angela Rayner at Glyndebourne; The Angela Rayner council house case, explained by a tax expert



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