Below is her resignation letter in full, along with Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's response and a letter from Sir Laurie Magnus, the independent adviser on ministerial ethics, in which he sets out that Rayner breached the ministerial code.

Angela Rayner has resigned as both deputy prime minister and housing secretary after an investigation into unpaid stamp duty on her new Hove flat.

Well, that was slow and painful. It remains a mystery why, with so much precedent on which to depend, ministers still take this long to resign, even when they must know that they’re bang to rights. And so it has proved with Angela Rayner,