The British prime minister, Keir Starmer, in difficulties on many fronts, reorganizes his government on Friday, September 5, due to the resignation of his number two, carried by a fiscal error.
The rumors of a reorganization multiplied their last days when the Labor leader tries to revive, with pain and exceeded in the surveys of the Nigel Farage anti-immigration party, Reforma United Kingdom.
But the resignation of Angela Rayner, his vicepriminiana Minister, Minister of Housing and the figure of the left wing of the Labor, a true blow to Starmer, forced him to accelerate the tempo. The latter had to leave the government and its functions within the plow after admitting to having submitted a tax when buying its accommodation.
In the process, several ministers, which dedicated to Scotland, Ian Murray, and that in charge of relations with the House of Commons, Lucy Powell, announced on social networks that were expelled from the government.
Other exits are coming, and according to the British media, the current Foreign Minister David Lammy will be appointed Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Justice. The current Interior Minister, Yvette Cooper, will replace it at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while Shabana Mahmood, current Minister of Justice, will be established in the Interior Ministry.
“Very sad”
Angela Rayner, 45, had told the Government Ethics Advisor, who concluded on Friday that she had “violated the code” of ministerial conduct. In his renunciation letter addressed to Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner said “deeply regret (his own) decision not to have sought additional specialized tax advice”, and assume “the total responsibility of this error.”
“Given the conclusions and the impact on my family, therefore, I decided to resign,” he continued, after several days of controversy and intense media coverage. In his letter accepting his resignation, Keir Starmer, “very sad,” told Angela Rayner that he would continue to be “an important figure” of the Labor Party.
The conservative opposition KEMI Badenoch was delighted with X that Angela Rayner was “finally part”, accusing the head of the government of “weakness” for not having acted in the first revelations.
The head of the United Kingdom, Nigel Farage, has criticized him since the annual conference of his party in Birmingham, a government “that despite all his promises to carry out a new and different policy, is as bad, even worse, as the one who preceded him.”
“In the best”
Angela Rayner had revealed on Wednesday that he had paid less taxes than he should have had after the acquisition in May of accommodation in Hove, resort in southern England. “I thought I had done everything correctly,” said Angela Rayner in an interview given to the Sky News channel on Wednesday.
“I am collapsed because I have always respected the rules,” he added, very moved.
Laurie Magnus, the government’s ethics advisor, said she had acted “in good faith”, but that he had to be responsible, like any taxpayer, for his tax statements.
Often attacked by the conservative media, Angela Rayner left school without a diploma and, at age 16, became a single mother. He discovered trade unionism and then politics after working in social, and climbed the stairs of the plow.
His resignation occurs after a difficult summer for the government, both unpopular for Labor voters, and faced internal divisions, in a difficult budget context.
In mid -July, he had faced a Honda of a third of the Labor Deputies who oppose their social protection reform, and was forced to avoid humiliating defeat in Parliament. Angela Rayner had remained close to the base of the party, sometimes he died for a possible replacement for Prime Minister Keir Starmer due to his popularity.
Source: BFM TV
