Inside Labour deputy Angela Rayner’s previous orange-walled council home

Angela Rayner’s former council home dwelling had a bed room with a vibrant orange wall and carpet to match her well-known crimson hair when she bought it for a £48,500 revenue, MailOn-line can reveal.

The putting color scheme was revealed in property agent footage from 2015 when Labour’s Deputy chief bought her two-bedroom dwelling in Stockport, Greater Manchester, simply eight years after she purchased it below Margaret Thatcher’s right-to-buy scheme.

The footage present a steel mattress with a brown patterned quilt and its head in opposition to a wall of the 13ft by 12ft room which was painted vibrant orange in what could possibly be taken as a color scheme from the Seventies.

The footage which might have made an intriguing episode of TV’s Through The Keyhole present the bed room carpet was an analogous shade of orange.

But an adjoining wall which has two home windows with blinds as a substitute of curtains was painted in a extra sober and conventional cream color.

The furnishings within the room was additionally fairly minimal with the photographs displaying a easy pine cabinet with a bedside desk subsequent to it and two additional bedside tables subsequent to the mattress together with one with a plain bedside lamp on it.

The footage have been taken when Ms Rayner put her home in the marketplace with an asking value of £139,950 in October 2014, though she needed to minimize the worth earlier than it lastly bought almost a yr later for £127,500 in March 2015, in line with property web site Zoopla.

The home was later given an entire makeover by its new house owners, consigning Ms Rayner’s orange bed room to historical past, and seemed fully totally different when it was bought for £188,000 in 2019.

Further authentic footage from the time when Ms Rayner bought her home present her liking for vibrant colors together with her 13ft by 12ft eating room painted mint inexperienced with a pine desk and 6 chairs over a wooden impact laminate flooring.

The room was additionally seen with a mirror and movie above a covered-up log impact electrical fireplace and two small e-book cabinets.

Meanwhile the 14ft by 9ft lounge of the semi-detached home had a extra subdued cream color scheme on the time with a dwelling flame fuel fireplace in an authentic hearth with a picket encompass and tile insert, and a brown couch dealing with a flat display TV.

The second bed room which was additionally pictured within the property brokers particulars featured extra conventional cream partitions with a double mattress sitting on a blue carpet and floral curtains tied again to let in pure gentle.

Meanwhile her kitchen, featured a variety of picket models, a tiled flooring, inbuilt oven, and black granite worktops with black tile mosaic splashbacks, room for home equipment together with a washer, dishwasher and a tumble drier beneath.

The kitchen additionally featured a inbuilt wine rack in line with the promoting particulars drawn up by Stockport property agent Ian Tonge Property Services.

A easy toilet painted in a yellow color above plain white tiles was proven with a built-in bathe in addition to a shower, and what seems to be a bottle of blue mouthwash on the sink and family cleaner on the window ledge.

But whereas the tidy and well-kept inside would have little question delighted property brokers, the photographs reveal that Ms Rayner’s backyard seemed moderately much less spectacular with an overgrown garden, weeds sprouting on the paving slab patio and unstable wanting fences.

The Mail on Sunday revealed yesterday how Ms Rayner purchased her council home in 2007 after being granted a 25 per cent low cost below right-to-buy laws.

Ms Rayner, who can also be shadow housing secretary, has been accused of ‘pulling up the ladder’ for different social housing tenants as she has vowed to evaluate the coverage if Labour wins the election.

Pressure is mounting for her to face a police probe into whether or not she offered false details about her dwelling circumstances earlier than she bought her home.

The Tories have written to Greater Manchester Police to demand an investigation as she appeared to have given two totally different addresses in official paperwork.

The declare is contained in a brand new e-book Red Queen? The Unauthorised Biography of Angela Rayner by Lord Ashcroft, which might be serialised within the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday subsequent month.

Questions have been raised about the place Ms Rayner really lived for a number of years earlier than she bought her home.

Official paperwork seen by the Mail on Sunday present that she was registered on the electoral roll at her ex-council home in Vicarage Road for 5 years after she married Mark Rayner in 2010.

Despite them being newlyweds, her husband was listed elsewhere – a home in Lowndes Lane, simply over a mile away, which had additionally been purchased below the right-to-buy scheme.

More mysteriously, when Ms Rayner re-registered the births of her two youngest kids that very same yr, she gave her deal with as Lowndes Lane.

It isn’t clear, due to this fact, the place she was dwelling after her marriage.

The confusion is critical as a result of below electoral guidelines, voters are anticipated to register at their everlasting dwelling deal with. Anyone who knowingly supplies false details about the deal with they’re registered to vote at may face conviction and a jail sentence.

Last evening, Tory MP James Daly wrote to Greater Manchester Police to ask that they examine whether or not she gave the right data.

He mentioned: ‘There is a strong public interest in looking into this matter,’ he mentioned.

The Mail on Sunday interviewed neighbours of each properties who claimed that Ms Rayner moved out of Vicarage Road in 2009 and into Lowndes Lane.

Lord Ashcroft’s e-book says that one neighbour had claimed that her brother Darren had moved in after she moved out when her two youngest kids have been born.

A neighbour in Lowndes Lane mentioned Ms Rayner and her husband had lived there with their kids from the summer season of 2009.

Ms Rayner posted on X, previously Twitter, that the home buy had been ‘by the book’ and mentioned it was a ‘proud moment’ for her.

She mentioned: ‘Being able to buy my council house back in 2007 was a proud moment for me. I worked hard, saved and bought it by the book. I’m not ashamed – however I’m offended that the Tories have since put the dream of a safe dwelling out of attain for therefore many others.’

Ms Rayner accused Lord Ashcroft of taking an ‘unhealthy interest in my family’ and ‘kicking down’ at folks like her ‘who graft in tough circumstances to get on in life’. However, she didn’t make clear particulars of her dwelling preparations on the time.

A Labour spokesman mentioned: ‘Angela, who had an older child from a previous relationship, and her husband maintained their existing residences before moving into their shared marital home.

‘Their son was born just 23 weeks into her pregnancy and spent eight months in intensive care, requiring ongoing support from a wide network of friends and family, including Angela’s brother. Beyond the smears, there isn’t a solutions any guidelines have been damaged.’

Right-to-buy was considered one of Margaret Thatcher’s flagship insurance policies, permitting social housing tenants to purchase the properties that they had rented at a beneficiant low cost. It has lengthy been opposed by the Left, and Labour has dedicated to evaluate the coverage if it wins the election.

Under the principles, a tenant should buy their dwelling with a reduction relying on how lengthy they’ve lived there, often signing a kind to say it’s their solely or principal dwelling.

They should repay a few of this low cost in the event that they promote inside 5 years.

Right-to-buy house owners are allowed to hire out their property throughout their first 5 years of possession however are anticipated to inform the council that they’re doing so.

A spokesman for the Electoral Commission didn’t touch upon Ms Rayner’s circumstances however mentioned: ‘Normally a person is resident at an address if it is their permanent home address. Whether someone is eligible to be on the register at an address is for the relevant electoral registration officer.

‘It is an offence to knowingly provide false information in the voter registration application form. If convicted, a person may be imprisoned for up to six months and/or face an unlimited fine.

‘This would be a matter for the police to investigate.’

Stockport Council didn’t reply to a request for remark yesterday.

Last evening a Labour spokesman added: ‘Angela was registered to vote at the home she owned and lived in. The Tories are once again wasting everyone’s time with political game-playing.’

Ms Rayner – who final week met ministers in India for a convention of worldwide economists and politicians – isn’t the primary Labour MP to be accused of hypocrisy.

Earlier this yr, the Mail revealed that backbencher Apsana Begum was nonetheless dwelling in a council flat greater than two years after admitting ‘it’s most likely not one thing that I want’.

And former shadow dwelling secretary Diane Abbott was revealed to have despatched her youngster to personal college in 2003.

It got here after she had beforehand condemned former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former appearing deputy Labour chief Harriet Harman for not sending their kids to conventional state colleges. She later admitted her resolution was ‘indefensible’.

Ms Harman despatched her youngster to grammar college in 1996 regardless of Labour opposing the system.

Former training secretary Ruth Kelly was additionally criticised after sending her youngster to personal college in 2007.