Angela Rayner council house scandal to be settled as General Election looms
Police are investigating the sale of the Labour deputy leader's former council house.
A police investigation into the sale of Angela Rayner's former council house is set to conclude before the election. And The Times reports Labour is increasingly confident the Deputy Leader will be cleared.
Ms Rayner has faced questions over where she lived in the 2010 and the sale of the property.
However, an announcement on her fate is expected within the week.
Ms Rayner's allies hope Greater Manchester Police will issue a public statement so questions about the house sale do not loom over her campaign for re-election, The Times says.
Detectives are said to have focused on whether MsRayner gave false information for the electoral register when she split her time between two former council houses in the 2010s.
She is accused of potential breaches of the Representation of the People Act 1983.
However, GMP is unlikely to send a file to the Crown Prosecution Service, as charges must be brought within 12 months of the alleged offence.
Officers are looking into several allegations, beyond electoral offences, and have reportedly not ruled out referrals to agencies such as HMRC.
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Ms Rayner has said she primarily lived in her own home, in Vicarage Road, Stockport, while her husband and father of two her her three children lived a mile away.
According to The Times, former neighbours said she lived with her husband and children. While a political aide is said to have given a statement to GMP.
Previously, her spokesman said she “looks forward to sitting down with the appropriate authorities, including the police and HMRC, to set out the facts and draw a line under this matter”.
Labour has refused to say whether a formal interview has taken place. While The Times says detectives first sent her a series of written questions.
She promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime but has said legal and tax advisers were confident she had done nothing wrong.