Health minister Stephen Kinnock presumably thought he was helping when, during an interview on LBC, he came tentatively to Rayner’s defence: “My understanding in the statement from the Prime Minister’s office is that she’s done nothing wrong.”
The devil, however, is in the detail. The Daily Telegraph, a whiff of blood in its collective nostrils, has plunged into the intricacies of Rayner’s living arrangements, and the facts seem to be as follows.
However, it is also reported that Rayner informed the local authority in which her constituency is located, Tameside Council, that her house in Ashton-under-Lyne was her “primary residence” for council tax purposes.
She is registered to vote in all three locations: Ashton-under-Lyne, London and Hove, which is not specifically prohibited so long as she only actually votes in one jurisdiction.
Let us be honest, the arrangements set out in The Telegraph do not have the air of a random series of events. At best, they seem cleverly prudent and presumably the result of canny financial advice. They do not simply happen.
Rayner, whose support in certain sections of the Labour Party and the trades union movement has been invaluable to Sir Keir Starmer, came to power as part of a Government which relentlessly promised change, which declared in its manifesto that “politics should be driven by a sense of service”, dedicated to “the service of working people”.
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This was expressly an invitation to hold Labour to a higher standard than the Conservatives, yet it has mixed with a toxic assumption of a priori moral superiority which makes ministers impatient every time they are questioned on matters of conduct or integrity.
The Government claims Rayner’s actions are “not an issue”. That is not for ministers to decide. This is not some technical matter of duties and taxation but a fundamental attitudinal stance towards transparency and propriety.
In opposition, Rayner rarely fought shy of calling for resignations at the slightest hint of wrongdoing. Labour prepared these scaffolds: incumbent ministers are not immune from political execution.
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