Police probe 'multiple allegations' against Angela Rayner: Dozens of officers ... trends now
Police investigating Angela Rayner's housing arrangements are probing multiple allegations and are not just looking at whether she broke electoral law, it emerged tonight.
Dozens of Greater Manchester Police officers are investigating the Labour deputy leader after Tory allegations that she may have given false information about her main residence in the 2010s.
Ms Rayner, 44, has promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime over the accusations, but said she 'followed the rules at all times'.
The under-fire MP is being investigated over claims she wrongly declared on the electoral roll she was living at a council house she bought under right to buy, on Vicarage Road, Stockport - when it is claimed she was living primarily at her husband Mark's home a mile away in Lowndes Lane.
But The Times reports that police are also investigating 'tax matters and other issues' in connection with her housing affairs.
Ms Rayner (pictured on Tuesday), 44, has promised to resign if she is found to have committed a crime over the accusations, but said she 'followed the rules at all times'
The address on Lowndes Lane - around a mile from Ms Rayner's property on Vicarage Road, which she insisted was her home
A source told the newspaper: 'It's very well resourced, it's not a single issue. There is a volume of material and a clear public interest to fully investigate.'
The bombshell update in the investigation comes just weeks ahead of the local elections next month.
Chief Constable Stephen Watson told local radio on Tuesday that 'there are a number of assertions knocking about' and 'we are going to get to the bottom of what has happened.'
Rayner maintains that she took expert legal and tax advice and was confident everything was done by the book.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has backed Ms Rayner but said he does not need to see the advice.
Under electoral law, parliamentary candidates must be registered to vote at their permanent address.
The Labour deputy has tried to put the
