What will Angela Rayner’s resignation mean for Keir Starmer’s government? Expert Q&A

By Thomas Caygill, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Nottingham Trent University

Angela Rayner has resigned as the UK’s deputy prime minister after a report found she had breached the ministerial code by not paying enough stamp duty on her second home.

In her resignation letter she said she deeply regretted what she maintained was an error, and the report from the prime minister’s ethics adviser said she had “acted with integrity” despite the breach. However, it was still enough to force Rayner, who was also housing secretary, to step down, prompting a cabinet reshuffle.

We asked Thomas Caygill, senior lecturer in politics at Nottingham…

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~	Escalating Israeli offensive in Gaza City will have catastrophic and irreversible consequences for Palestinians

~	Plans to ‘maximise extraction’ of North Sea oil and gas would soon run into geological limits

~	Can certain food cravings predict a cancer diagnosis, up to three months before other symptoms appear?

~	History is full of failed attempts to establish new currencies. So what makes crypto different?

~	Stories of people at war – what to watch, read and see this week

~	Why the US new military operation against Latin American drug cartels stokes regional tensions

~	An animal sedative keeps turning up in opioid deaths – what you need to know about medetomidine

~	One queen ant, two species: the discovery that reshapes what ‘family’ means in nature

~	Heart attack patients: do you still need beta blockers? A cardiologist explains

~	Jamaican prime minister returns to power amid reduction in violent crime