Angela Rayner’s £17,000 severance pay after tax row ‘outrageous,’ Tories say

Angela Rayner’s £17,000 severance pay after tax row ‘outrageous,’ Tories say

The former deputy PM quit the Government last month after breaching the ministerial code over a property purchase. Angela Rayner’s receipt of a ministerial severance payment of nearly £17,000 after quitting Government over her tax affairs has been branded “outrageous” by the Conservatives. She resigned as deputy prime minister, housing secretary and deputy Labour leader last month after an independent ethics probe found she had breached the mini…