0121 550 4151Angela Rayner’s returns to frontline politics which puts her at the centre of key policies.
Her new role as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government will mean that she will take the lead in implementing house buying reforms, announced by her predecessor Steve Reed in June.
And if there are private rent controls tested or introduced as part of a devolution package, she will have responsibility for that too.
On top of all those measures, the local government part of her brief will mean she has responsibility for council reorganisation proposals announced just last week, as well as being part of Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s large scale devolution pledges made during his leadership campaign.
Some 10 months ago Rayner resigned after underpaying £40,000 in stamp duty on a second home, breaching the ministerial code.
Rayner – who then served as the UK Deputy Prime Minister as well as Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government – resigned following revelations that she had underpaid stamp duty on an £800,000 flat in East Sussex, purchased in May last year.