ANGELA Rayner has referred herself to the No10 sleaze watchdog after admitting she did not pay enough tax on her second home.
The Deputy Prime Minister has also revealed she spoke to her family about resigning.
Angela Rayner at Cabinet yesterday[/caption]
Ms Rayner gave the interview to Sky after facing serious questions over whether she paid the right council tax and stamp duty on her three properties.
She said: “I made a mistake based upon the advice that I relied upon that I received at the time, and a leading expert has now said that advice was wrong.
“I think hopefully most people can see, if you take, if you rely on advice given to you by lawyers and you follow that process and then you find out that that process is wrong and that advice is wrong, I’m rectifying it at the earliest opportunity.
“People make mistakes, but I conducted myself in trying to do the right thing, and I hope that people can see that.”
The Tories have been demanding she is investigated by independent ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus over her property in Hove, East Sussex.
Ms Rayner, also Housing Secretary, is understood to have saved £40,000 in stamp duty after removing her name from the deeds of a family property in her constituency of Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester.
It was also reported that remains her primary residence, which saves £2,000 in council tax on her central London grace-and-favour pad.
She also split the ownership of her £650,000 constituency home, placing it in a trust administered by law firm Shoosmiths.
