Angela Rayner used family conveyancing firm to buy tax row flat

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Angela Rayner used a small conveyancing firm for the purchase of an £800,000 flat which has put her at the centre of a damaging tax row, the Guardian has learned.

The deputy prime minister employed Verrico & Associates, a family firm based in Herne Bay, Kent, to complete the transaction, according to legal documents seen by this newspaper.