{"id":160502,"date":"2025-09-05T01:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T18:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/keir-starmer-may-be-the-judge-of-angela-rayners-fate-but-the-public-is-the-jury-gaby-hinsliff\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:27:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:27:17","slug":"keir-starmer-may-be-the-judge-of-angela-rayners-fate-but-the-public-is-the-jury-gaby-hinsliff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/keir-starmer-may-be-the-judge-of-angela-rayners-fate-but-the-public-is-the-jury-gaby-hinsliff\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer may be the judge of Angela Rayner\u2019s fate \u2013 but the public is the jury | Gaby Hinsliff"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIf there is any ambiguity over the verdict, then the deputy prime minister\u2019s future will depend on voters\u2019 feelings towards herSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they\u2019ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreIt didn\u2019t take them long to find her. Spray-painted on the wall outside Angela Rayner\u2019s new flat in Hove, East Sussex, in purple, red and yellow, the graffiti variously read \u201cTax evader Rayner\u201d and \u201cBitch\u201d.Politics comes scarily close to home these days, and that in turn makes politicians much more wary than they used to be of revealing anything about their home lives. Keir Starmer\u2019s old house was subjected to an alleged arson attack, the man who ultimately murdered the Tory MP David Amess had previously staked out Michael Gove\u2019s family home, and three years ago a man was jailed for telling Rayner that he knew where she lived so she had better \u201cwatch your back and your kids\u201d. That\u2019s not an excuse for how the deputy prime minister may have reacted when journalists started sniffing around her new post-divorce life by the sea, leading to pictures of the Hove flat and her children\u2019s family home in Ashton-under-Lyne appearing in the papers, and ultimately to her having to lift a court order protecting the privacy of her disabled son in order to explain exactly how she ended up apparently underpaying \u00a340,000 in stamp duty on the new flat.Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Continue reading…
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