Angela Rayner has said she did not break any rules over her “personal holiday” in New York with Sam Tarry, for which the pair stayed at the flat of Labour donor Lord Waheed Alli. The deputy prime minister stayed with her then partner Mr Tarry, a former Labour MP, at the $2.5m Manhattan penthouse over New Year, according to the Sunday Times.

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Angela Rayner has denied she broke any rules over the donated use of a New York apartment owned by the Labour donor Lord Alli. It has emerged that a former Labour MP, Sam Tarry, joined for parts of her stay at the flat but was not named in the parliamentary declaration laying out details of the donation.