Police have issued a new statement over allegations Angela Rayner paid the incorrect amount of tax when selling her former home.
The Ashton-under-Lyne MP denies any wrongdoing following claims made in a book by a former Conservative Party deputy chairman that she failed to properly declare her main residency.
Ms Rayner insists she consulted tax experts when the sale went through in 2015. Police previously decided not to pursue an investigation, but have now issued a statement saying they are 'in the process of reassessing this decision' following a complaint. READ MORE: 'Horror' outside Manchester hospital as children's nurse is handcuffed and arrested A GMP Spokesperson said: "We have received a complaint regarding our decision not to investigate an allegation and are in the process of reassessing this decision.
The complainant will be updated with the outcome of the reassessment in due course." In Lord Ashcroft's book Red Queen? The Unauthorised Biography of Angela Rayner, he alleges that the MP bought her former council house, in Vicarage Road in Stockport, with a 25 per cent discount in 2007 under right-to-buy, a scheme introduced by former Tory prime minister Margaret Thatcher in 1980.
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