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LONDON -- Britain’s Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has resigned following a scandal over her failure to pay the correct amount of property tax, adding to the woes of the country’s struggling center-left government.

Rayner’s departure is another headache for the United Kingdom’s increasingly unpopular leader, Keir Starmer, and deprives his cabinet of one of its brightest political stars.

In a letter addressed to Starmer on Friday, Rayner said that she was stepping down as Britain’s deputy prime minister and housing minister, as well as the deputy leader of the Labour Party.

Despite securing a landslide election victory in July 2024, Labour is now facing a rising challenge from the upstart anti-immigration Reform UK party, wh

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