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Angela Rayner’s claims to have not broken any rules over her property dealings have been blown apart by a Mail on Sunday investigation into her real ‘home’.

Labour’s Deputy Leader has insisted for six weeks that for many years her ‘principal property’ was a house in Stockport, where she claimed to live separately from her husband and children for the first five years of her marriage.

Now this newspaper has disproved her story by studying dozens of postings made by Ms Rayner on social media during that period showing her life with her children and cats at her husband’s address.

One of the photos from the property she claims not to have lived at was even posted with the caption ‘just got home’. In every case where there is a picture, the backdrop is the husband’s house.

It means Ms Rayner potentially faces a criminal conviction and a fine for a false declaration on the electoral roll – and under tax rules, married couples and civil couples can normally only count one property as their main home at any one time. The mother-of-three has refused to publish tax advice which she claims exonerates her – and has not shown it to party leader Sir Keir Starmer.

Tory MP James Daly said today: ‘These staggering revelations seem to show that Angela Rayner has not been telling the truth about the most basic facts. Keir Starmer has said he has full confidence in her but has refused to consider any evidence. 

'This is now a question about his leadership and whether he is happy to have a deputy incapable of being straightforward with the public.’

The Mail on Sunday first revealed in February that a new biography of Ms Rayner by Lord Ashcroft had established that she used the Thatcherite right-to-buy policy to purchase a former council house in Vicarage Road, Stockport, in 2007, making a £48,500 profit when she sold the house eight years later. 

She faced accusations of hypocrisy because she has criticised the flagship Tory scheme for ‘helping to fuel the housing crisis’ by depleting publicly owned stock.

Documents seen by the MoS showed that Ms Rayner was registered on the electoral roll at Vicarage Road for five years after she married Mark Rayner in 2010, while he was listed at an address in Lowndes Lane a mile away. 

When Ms Rayner re-registered the births of two of her children in 2010 she gave her address as her husband’s house.

The unusual arrangement enabled her to avoid capital gains tax on the sale of the former council house and by retaining the property for more than five years she avoided having to return some of the price discount to the council. 

She could also have earned a 25 per cent single-occupancy discount on her council tax. Residents at Vicarage Road said Ms Rayner had described herself as the ‘landlady’ at her house, and that they rarely saw her.

In response to the story, an outraged Ms Rayner insisted that Vicarage Road was her home, saying: ‘I bought my council house back in 2007. I owned my own home, lived there, paid the bills there and was registered to vote there, prior to selling the house in 2015. 

'All before I was an MP. As with the majority of ordinary people who sell their own homes, I was not liable for capital gains tax because it was my home and the only one I owned.’

In the face of mounting scepticism, Ms Rayner – who expects to be Britain’s next deputy prime minister – doubled-down on her story, saying two weeks later: ‘Vicarage Road was my principal property.... my house was my house at Vicarage Road and I paid all my bills there, that was my home.’ 

But analysis of multiple social media posts on platforms such as Twitter back to 2010 show Ms Rayner relaxing at Lowndes Lane.

In a typical example from March 2014, she posted that she was ‘just back from work’ with a picture of her two cats, Woozle and Tilly, sitting on her lap. 

The same sofa can be seen in estate agents’ pictures when the Lowndes Lane house was put up for sale the following year.

Another, from April 2014, read ‘just got home’ and included a picture of one of her boys playing against a Lowndes Lane backdrop. And one from 2012 said ‘I can cook’, with a picture of her children in the Lowndes Lane kitchen. 

Our revelations come after a number of neighbours contradicted Ms Rayner’s claims about her living arrangements, with Sylvia Hampson, a Lowndes Lane resident, calling her a ‘f***ing liar’ for saying she didn’t live there.

Stockport Council has said it will review allegations of electoral or tax fraud, while local police said they would look again at the case following an initial decision not to investigate.

Her failure to release documents related to the affair has led to accusations of ‘double standards’, given how vehemently Ms Rayner demanded Rishi Sunak’s wife answer questions about her tax affairs just before her husband became Prime Minister.

A Labour spokesman said today: 'Angela and her husband mutually decided to maintain their existing residences to reflect their family’s circumstances and they shared childcare responsibilities.

'Angela has always made clear she also spent time at her husband’s property when they had children and got married. She was perfectly entitled to do so.'

Ever since we questioned the accuracy of her electoral roll entry, Angela Rayner has insisted she lived separately from her family and husband. Her Tweets tell a VERY different story 

They are scenes of domestic bliss – a mother enjoying home life with her husband, three children and two cats called Woozle and Tilly.

Unfortunately for Angela Rayner, they also contradict her repeated claims that the house in which the pictures were taken was not her home.

The Mail on Sunday has studied more than 30 social media posts by Labour’s Deputy leader between 2010 and 2015, when Ms Rayner claims to

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