Police are launching an investigation into claims that Angela Rayner broke electoral law in the sale of her town hall

Angela Rayner is being investigated by police over the sale of her town hall, it emerged today.

Greater Manchester Police confirmed it was investigating claims the Labor deputy leader may have broken electoral law by registering at the wrong address more than ten years ago.

Questions have also been raised about whether she wrongly paid capital gains tax on the 2015 sale of a property in Manchester.

Police re-examined a decision not to investigate following a complaint from Tory Bury MP and Deputy Speaker James Daly.

A Greater Manchester Police spokesman said: ‘We are investigating whether any offenses have been committed.

‘This follows a reassessment of the information Mr Daly has given us.’

Labor said it remains confident Ms Rayner has complied with the rules and the deputy leader ‘welcomes the chance to set out the facts with the police’.

On Wednesday, Ms Rayner was attacked by a Tory-sponsored “tax dodger” protest as she broke cover on the campaign trail in the North East

Ms Rayner has denied wrongdoing. But she has refused to publish tax advice which she claims exempts her – and has not shown it directly to Sir Keir Starmer (pictured today), he has admitted.

Ms Rayner has denied wrongdoing. But she has refused to publish tax advice which she claims exempts her – and has not shown it directly to Sir Keir Starmer, he has admitted.

Before becoming an MP, Mrs Rayner used Margaret Thatcher’s Right to Buy to buy her former town hall in Vicarage Road, Stockport, in January 2007.

She married Mark Rayner in September 2010 and the couple re-registered the birth of their two sons that year, giving Mr Rayner’s address in nearby Lowndes Lane.

But Mrs Rayner remained listed on Vicarage Road until 2015, when she sold the house for a profit of £48,500.

Knowingly giving false information on a voter registration form is an offense punishable by up to six months in prison or an unlimited fine.

A married couple can also normally only have one main residence, where capital gains tax must be paid on the sale of the second residence.

Sir. Daly had responded to the force’s initial finding after an ‘investigative review’ that lasted just seven working days and that ‘there was not a case to answer’ by raising concerns that his complaint was ‘not dealt with properly’.

He told the force to take a fresh look to maintain ‘public confidence’.

The Mail on Sunday has studied dozens of posts made by Mrs Rayner on social media during the period in question, showing her life with her children and cats at her husband’s address

In response, it wrote back to Chief Insp Cheryl Hughes to say she has been “asked to review the circumstances you have outlined in order to reassess our decision to investigate.”

However, questions were raised about the “reassessment” of the allegation against the Ashton-under-Lyne MP after the TheWSTNews last week ((((LINK)))) revealed that police had not spoken to neighbors who have repeatedly contradicted her version of events.

An 83-year-old who lived next door to Mr. Rayner’s house, a mile away, told the Mail on Sunday the Labor frontbencher was a ‘f***ing liar’ if she said she hadn’t lived there.

The claims first appeared in Red Queen? The unauthorized biography of Angela Rayner by Lord Ashcroft, serialized in the Mail.

According to the election rules, voters are expected to register at their permanent home address.

Mrs Rayner insists she lived in the former semi-detached house in Vicarage Road – paying tax and bills – until weeks before her election as MP for Ashton-under-Lyne in May 2015 and never rented it out.

The mother-of-three and her then-husband – they have since separated – both ‘maintained’ their own home until they set up a joint matrimonial home after she was elected to Parliament, she says.

Sources said she had ‘never denied’ she also ‘spent time’ at her husband’s terraced house in Lowndes Lane after their marriage.

After Mr Daly’s second complaint, a spokesman for Mrs Rayner said: ‘Gossip and rumors do not change the fact that Angela Rayner maintained her own home while sharing childcare responsibilities with her husband at his property.’

Ms Rayner was contacted for comment on the police investigation.