British Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner announced her resignation from the left-wing Labour government on Friday after a parliamentary watchdog concluded that she had violated ministerial code in failing to pay tens of thousands in property taxes.

Rayner, who also served as the Housing Minister, said in her resignation from both posts that she “deeply regretted” having failed to seek expert tax advice concerning the purchase of her £800,000 second home earlier this year.

The far-left politician admitted to underpaying the “stamp duty” property tax on the purchase of her second home in Hove by £40,000. Rayner said that she takes “full responsibility for this error” and maintained that it was “never my intention” to not pay the tax in full, The Times of London reports .

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