SIR Keir Starmer has kicked off a huge cabinet reshuffle after Angela Rayner became the 7th Minister to leave the government in controversial circumstances since he came into power.

The Deputy Prime Minister has become the most high profile figure to have quit following her stamp duty controversy.

The PM was understood to have been keen to hold on to Rayner but serious failings over her tax affairs meant she had no choice to leave office.

Her departure comes nearly a year after Transport Secretary Louise Haigh resigned from her post after failings in correcting police records more than a decade earlier.

Haigh left after in November last year it emerged she had been convicted of fraud over a missing work phone.

In her departure letter, she said whatever the facts of the matter the is

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