GB News hosts speechless as Angela Rayner 'stepping down' is bad news for Keir Starmer

GB News presenters Ellie Costello and Stephen Dixon were joined by Charlie Rowley on Thursday's programme where the former political adviser ripped into Angela Rayner's "failure" to pay the correct amount of stamp duty, saying regardless of circumstances, she should resign. It comes after the deputy prime minister and housing secretary said arrangements on her family home in Greater Manchester meant she should have paid a higher rate. She denied she had tried to dodge the extra tax, blaming the "mistake" on initial legal advice that failed to "properly take account" of the situation. Sir Keir Starmer stood by his deputy at Prime Minister's Questions, saying he was "very proud to sit alongside" her.

However, his loyalty towards his colleague has been called into question as host Ellie quizzed: "What do you make of accusations the prime minister has misled the public when he was saying Angela Rayner was a victim of misogyny - when its understood Number 10 knew at that time Angela was seeking independent legal advice on this situation and that potentially she had not paid enough tax?"

Charlie suggested he was unsure who was advising the prime minister but if Angela were to resign it would not fare well for Starmer.

He said: "If he is now siding with Angela Rayner and trying to call other people holding her account or scrutinising her - they're not a campaign organisation. This is the government sworn into office.

"They take up their seals of office and have to be held to the highest and moral standards in public life.

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