{"id":15194,"date":"2026-05-14T06:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/potential-uk-leadership-contender-angela-rayner-cleared-in-tax-probe-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:24:08","slug":"potential-uk-leadership-contender-angela-rayner-cleared-in-tax-probe-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/potential-uk-leadership-contender-angela-rayner-cleared-in-tax-probe-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Potential UK leadership contender Angela Rayner cleared in tax probe \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>LONDON \u2014\u00a0Angela Rayner has been cleared of wrongdoing in a tax investigation, removing a potential hurdle to any bid to become the next leader of the ruling Labour Party.<\/p>\n<p>The former deputy prime minister told the Guardian newspaper and ITV News  that the U.K. tax authority HMRC concluded she \u201cdidn\u2019t try to avoid paying tax\u201d or \u201cwasn\u2019t careless in the way in which I conducted myself\u201d following an investigation into unpaid property tax, which was launched last fall. <\/p>\n<p>It comes at a crucial time, with Keir Starmer\u2019s leadership under threat. Health&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/potential-uk-leadership-contender-angela-rayner-cleared-tax-probe\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014\u00a0Angela Rayner has been cleared of wrongdoing in a tax investigation, removing a potential hurdle to any bid to become the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3458,3510],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe-gcc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}