Angela Rayner denies breaking rules after free stay in £2,000,000 New York flat

Angela Rayner has denied breaking rules implicit a vacation she took to New York with an MP person – saying she was, if anything, ‘overly transparent’ astir the trip.

The Labour lawman person travelled to the US metropolis for New Year with then-Ilford South MP Sam Tarry and stayed successful accommodation provided by Lord Waheed Alli.

According to the Sunday Times, the flat successful Manhattan is worthy $2.5 cardinal (£1.9 million), and the estimated outgo of staying determination for 5 days – arsenic listed successful Rayner’s registry of interests – was £1,250.

In an quality connected Laura Kuenssberg’s BBC amusement this morning, Rayner faced questions implicit whether she breached parliamentary rules by failing to state that Tarry had joined her successful the accommodation.

She told the presenter: ‘I paid for my vacation successful New York, but arsenic friends do, a person allowed maine to stay. I often let radical to enactment astatine mine.’

The Ashton-under-Lyne MP said she went ‘beyond the rules’ and was ‘overly transparent’ by declaring the enactment successful her registry of interests adjacent though it was a private, idiosyncratic vacation that did not impact parliamentary activity.

She said she felt it was important to officially registry it arsenic Lord Alli has fixed her governmental donations to her arsenic lawman leader.

When pressed connected whether she broke the rules by staying with Tarry, she said: ‘I don’t judge I broke immoderate rules. I had the usage of the apartment, and I disclosed that I had the usage of the apartment.’

Rayner was antecedently successful a narration with Tarry, who was deselected arsenic a campaigner by his section Labour Party up of the 2024 election, but it was reported to person travel to an extremity past year.

She said Tarry had not travelled with her to New York, but she had met him on with a larger radical of friends upon arrival.

Lord Alli has precocious been astatine the centre of contention implicit gifts accepted by Labour’s apical team, astir prominently Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

While person of the opposition, Starmer took gifts of suits and pairs of glasses worthy thousands of pounds from the TV mogul peer.

On Friday, it was revealed that he, Rayner and Chancellor Rachel Reeves would nary longer judge donations for clothing.

The changeless watercourse of revelations implicit freebies accepted by members of the furniture shows nary motion of abating arsenic Labour begins its four-day enactment league successful Liverpool.

It is the archetypal clip successful 15 years that the enactment has held specified a gathering portion successful power, but choler astir the gifts and the government’s determination to chopped the wintertime substance outgo for millions of UK pensioners threatens to overshadow the celebrations.

Rayner is owed to code the league aboriginal this morning, portion Reeves and Starmer volition marque their ain speeches connected Monday and Tuesday respectively.

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