A difficult Monday morning for Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner. The right-on left-winger is facing some tricky questions today after Lord Ashcroft did some digging into her background for his latest book Red Queen? As part of his Rayner biography, the former Tory peer published documents which showed that in January 2006 the Ashton-under-Lyne MP bought her council house in Vicarage Road, Stockport, with a £26,000 discount under Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme.
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