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Angela Rayner has admitted she did not pay enough stamp duty on her second home and has considered resigning .
Labour's Deputy Prime Minister said that she has referred herself to the independent adviser on ministerial standards .
Rayner said she had received inaccurate tax advice and had spoken to her family about quitting.
The Housing Secretary has been under intense pressure over her tax affairs after media reports about her purchase of a flat in Hove.
She was reported to have saved £40,000 in stamp duty on the flat because she removed her name from the deeds of a family property in her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency, meaning the Hove property is the only property she owns.
She told Sky’s Electoral Dysfunction podcast : “I’ve been in shock, really, becau