ANGELA Rayner was Labour’s Red Queen whose fiery attacks on Tory sleaze helped topple Boris Johnson’s government.
But in the end it was her own political career that was brought down by scandal .
Angela Rayner quit as Deputy PM and Housing Secretary today over revelations she underpaid stamp duty tax on her new Hove flat by £40,000.
The bombshell scandal emerged after I broke the story that she had bought a new £800,000 flat on the trendy south coast - over 250 miles away from her constituency in Ashton-under-Lyne.
Her team had spent days and days furiously denying that she had dodged her taxes, insisting that every single penny was paid.
Even Sir Keir Starmer was sent out to defend her on the airwaves and accuse her critics of waging a sexist and classist war on his No2.
But