Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said she has "full faith and trust" in Angela Rayner and is confident she has paid the tax owed on her property sale.The Labour deputy leader has faced questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax on the 2015 sale of her ex-council house due to confusion over whether it was her principal residency.Ms Reeves also said she could "ramp up" the number of HMRC staff "pretty quickly", as part of Labour's plans to crack down on tax avoiders.The party

Labour's shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves said she has "full faith and trust" in Angela Rayner and is confident she has paid the tax owed on her property sale.The Labour deputy leader has faced questions about whether she paid the right amount of tax on the 2015 sale of her ex-council house due to confusion over whether it was her principal residency.Ms Reeves also said she could "ramp up" the number of HMRC staff "pretty quickly", as part of Labour's plans to crack down on tax avoiders.The party has said it will invest up to £555 million a year in boosting the number of compliance officers at HMRC to increase productivity.