Angela Rayner, the UK Deputy PM, is embroiled in a contentious situation over property with the Conservatives accusing Rayner, who is also the housing secretary, of hypocrisy. She avoided tax when buying a seaside property in East Sussex, purportedly to give her a safe seat for the next election. She ducked £40,000 in stamp duty by listing it as the only property she owns; and given she has also listed her Greater Manchester home as her primary residence, allowing her to avoid £2,000 in council tax on her government-owned flat in central London, it all seems a gigantic muddle.
Whether or not it all turns out to be a storm in a teacup the optics are bad amid reports that Labour is planning to increase property taxes as a way of avoiding a multibillion-pound shortfall in public spending.
Tory Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake has written to the prime minister’s independent standards adviser asking him to investigate whether Rayner broke ministerial rules. There is no suggestion she has broken any laws, but the Tories said this was “inappropriate tax avoidance for a minister subject to higher standards of conduct”.
Born 28 March 1980 in Stockport, England, she has been proud of her background as a single mother at 16 who later became a care worker, a trade union representative and then an MP. She has rollicked through several scandals and relationships. (See wiki).
She has an unaspected Aries Sun which Tierney describes as ‘an independent spirit but not always in a wholesome or well-balanced way.’ Self-esteem and self-pride are important. Can be self-centred.
She also has an impulsive, explosive Uranus square flamboyant Mars in Leo and a ‘leadership’ Leo North Node. But what dominates her chart is a yod from a super-ambitious Pluto sextile Neptune inconjunct an indulgent, acquisitive Venus in Taurus conjunct Algol. Her Venus in Taurus is also opposition Uranus square Mars North Node and trine Saturn – so the most active planet in her chart.
Her Solar Arc Sun is moving to conjunct her yod apex Venus in 2026 which need not necessarily be bad but it will highlight her possessive, materialistic tendencies. And by 2028 her Solar Arc Sun will oppose her Uranus for a major change in her life. In 2027/27 tr Neptune will conjunct her Sun for a low energy, discouraging phase. She has a mixed bag ahead in the immediate months with uncertainty, jolts and jangles as well as some luck.
But her relationship with Keir Starmer will be seriously stressed from later this month to early December with tr Pluto opposition the composite Mars; and a high-tension tr Uranus opposition the composite Saturn Neptune from early this August to May 2026.
It may give Chancellor Rachel Reeves pause for thought as she aims to raise taxes in several directions against the background of this kind of tap dancing with property deals. The Rayner/Reeves relationship chart has a composite Sun Venus which is catching this September’s Lunar Eclipse – apex of a composite yod which binds them together by fate for good or ill – and this will bring a crisis or two crashing into their togetherness.
Amazing to think Starmer’s government has been in for less than fourteen months – it feels old and worn out already.
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