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Is the first tweet turns out to be correct she will be f##led over lying / cover up / attempted deflection. So often it is that rather than the initial story that does for you.

It quites different to go around saying I did everything proppa that my lawyers told me to do and they were wrong compared to i did everything proppa that my lawyers told me to do when the lawyers we said no such thing nor were we asked.

No, point 3 of the first tweet says the firm calculated stamp duty using the HMRC calculator. That presumably is what Rayner means. The fact they'd have come up with a different figure if they had taken the trust into account does not alter the fact they did calculate stamp duty.

On Euston station, if anyone has half an hour for a look at something interesting, I recommend the caryatids in the North and South porches at the 1819 Greek Revival St Pancras New Church which is just across the road.

It's the only one known to me with these - Greek style figures used as columns - in the country, and is just across the road.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/tE3oUfc1Ts67wpgp9

IanVisits article about it, with a piccie of the interior, which was built to seat 2500.

Open 11-2 6 days a week, or (I assume) service times on Sundays. Art gallery in the crypt.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/inside-the-200-year-old-st-pancras-new-church-56018/

Tomorrow's Guardian front page

'The conveyancing firm that Angela Rayner used to complete her purchase of an £800,000 flat on the south coast has said it did not offer her tax advice and completed her stamp duty return based only on information she provided'

I will leave that there

Parked - alongside Rayner's ambitions

Will Andy Burnham fancy winning the forthcoming Ashton by-election?

Not as much as Reform will...

Come on you PBTories, throw your lot in with Nigel. You know you want to.

PBTories don’t want to throw their lot in with Nigel, they want their Tory party back. Get Cameron back in, get back to the centre and pray.

You need to invent a time machine, go back to 2010 and tell Cameron that if you really want to have an EU Referendum, don't do austerity first.

Sadly they never actually did austerity. They just called it that. Look at what Canada did in an actual austerity.

They stopped spending money at the very moment they could have invested billions at very low interest rates... As I said yesterday it's that lack of investment which has come back to bite them continually since 2016...

Is this trust a lot more complicated than what we’ve already heard ? And wouldn’t those tax advisers have asked for more detail before giving their advice if that was the case .

I tend to think Rayner genuinely didn’t try and rip off the HMRC because that would have been just so short sighted and risky given what happened last year .

Surely no one would be this stupid . It could be that she simply can’t prove that it was a genuine error and will end up going because of that .

This would be a massive loss to Labour because she was seen as the natural successor to Starmer , someone with a back story that meant she was seen as one of us not one of them .

If she's done for its a win for the UK. She is ghastly in so many ways. The thought of her as Prine Minister is just hideous.

I would have loved to have seen her as PM but I accept she’s a bit of a Marmite character .

Genuine question. Why? What do you think would have made her a good PM? What evidence is there for this?

Or just shits and giggles?

Rayner is very good as an attack dog and hyping up the base, but like Two Jags, there is absolutely no evidence she has the skills to do the top job.

Is this trust a lot more complicated than what we’ve already heard ? And wouldn’t those tax advisers have asked for more detail before giving their advice if that was the case .

I tend to think Rayner genuinely didn’t try and rip off the HMRC because that would have been just so short sighted and risky given what happened last year .

Surely no one would be this stupid . It could be that she simply can’t prove that it was a genuine error and will end up going because of that .

This would be a massive loss to Labour because she was seen as the natural successor to Starmer , someone with a back story that meant she was seen as one of us not one of them .

If she's done for its a win for the UK. She is ghastly in so many ways. The thought of her as Prine Minister is just hideous.

I would have loved to have seen her as PM but I accept she’s a bit of a Marmite character .

Genuine question. Why? What do you think would have made her a good PM? What evidence is there for this?

Or just shits and giggles?

She’s not wooden and would show a lot more vision for the country . She’s relatable and if you get the right people around you it’s not such a tough gig .

Its an absolutely insanely tough job, especially for the foreseeable future, as Rishi found out and Starmer is finding out. Brown couldn't do it, May couldn't do it, Boris and Truss were a shit show. Blair and Cameron are the only two that looked like they could at least keep the ship heading in the direction they had plotted.

Brown baffled me. I think he is an intelligent chap. I think he allowed himself to believe his own legend and basically rode a wave of prosperity during the good times. But surely after trying for so long to get to the top he ought to have had some idea of what he wanted to do? And yet apparently not.