Keir Starmer said he was “proud” of Angela Rayner despite questions mounting over her tax affairs.

Keir Starmer said he was “very proud to sit alongside” Angela Rayner as the deputy prime minister referred to herself to the standards watchdog over unpaid stamp duty on her second home.

Minutes before PMQs began, Angela Rayner admitted she failed to pay the right amount of stamp duty tax on her second home.

Rayner also said a court order had prevented her from being able to speak about her living arrangements, with a row over stamp duties and her living circumstances lasting for weeks.

The deputy prime minister said she was “devastated” as she said an error in tax advice had led to an underpayment in stamp duty tax on her seaside home in Hove.

Starmer said Rayner had gone “over and a

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