BBC Radio star Lee Harris didn’t hold back as he laid into a sobbing Angela Rayner after her stamp duty row
Angela Rayner broke down in tears (Image: Sky News)
Angela Rayner didn’t garner any sympathy from one BBC Radio star as she broke down in tears live on Sky News. The deputy prime minister was seen with tears in her eyes as she admitted to underpaying £40,000 on stamp duty for her secondary home in Hove – claiming it was her primary residence after placing her Ashton-under-Lyme home in trust for her disabled son.
Now BBC Radio presenter and GB News star Lee Harris has hit out at the housing secretary, tweeting a picture of her red-rimmed eyes with the caption: “The only reason Angela Rayner was crying is because she got caught.”
He added: “Working class hero and colossal tax-dodging hypocrite, Angela ‘three pads’ Rayner, is on resignation watch. It’s impossible for her to come back from this.
“Her position is untenable. Tick tock,” he wrote.
Harris went on to share an AI video of Rayner rapping about her numerous homes, before joking: “Stand down everyone. Chancellor Rachel Reeves, the incompetent Labour MP who lied on her CV, said she has ‘full confidence’ in Angela Rayner.”
Tax experts have now claimed Rayner is at risk of being fined over her tax affairs, as HMRC can levy penalties when tax has been underpaid due to “carelessness”.
Lee Harris took aim at the deputy PM (Image: GB News)
Independent stamp duty expert Sean Randall told the BBC: “Someone has made a big mistake. Whether it’s the law firm acting for her on the purchase, or whether it is her. She might say I relied on my tax advisers to advise me correctly. And I definitely sympathise with that [but] usually simply relying on your adviser is not a defence for a penalty of carelessness.”
Rayner isn’t the only Labour MP to be seen in tears this year. Reeves broke down in the House of Commons in July 2025, claiming she was dealing with a “personal issue” and had suffered a “tough day”.
