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Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer appeared to neglect Angela Rayner‘s job title during an interview with BBC 5 Live. He was discussing the current furore surrounding the acquisition of her new home in Hove, for which she dodged a huge £40,000 stamp responsibility invoice on the seaside condominium after telling tax authorities it was her main home. Throwing his help behind her, he inadvertently referred to his deputy as the Prime Minister.

“Angela has had people briefing against her and talking her down over and over again,” Starmer said. “It’s a big mistake… Angela is an incredible Prime Minister, an incredible person.” The slip did not go unnoticed as one X person shared it to the platform and queried what that they had just heard. “Keir Starmer has just referred to Angela Rayner as ‘An incredible Prime Minister’. Was this a genuine accident or Freudian slip, what exactly is on Keir Starmer‘s mind,” they contemplated.

In the interview with BBC Radio 5 Live’s Matt Chorley, Starmer was requested if Rayner was the sufferer of a sexist and classist “briefing war”, as her supporters have claimed.

“Angela came from a very humble background, battled all sorts of challenges along the way, and there she is proudly – and I’m proud of her – as our deputy prime minister,” Starmer declared, defending his colleague.

He added she was a “great story of British success”, and gave working-class kids “a real sense of aspiration”.

The Deputy Prime Minister has come under fire as she is known to have stripped her title from the deeds of her Greater Manchester home, just weeks before forking out £800,000 on a plush flat in Hove, East Sussex.

This allowed Rayner to dodge a £70,000 stamp responsibility invoice that would have landed if the Hove property had been handled as her second home.

Instead, she is believed to have stumped up just £30,000, the Telegraph reviews. Meanwhile, she told Tameside and Brighton and Hove councils that her Greater Manchester property is still her major residence and the Hove flat was a second home.

While the preparations are totally legal, they spark questions over whether or not she has intentionally juggled her property affairs to slash her stamp responsibility and council tax payments.

A surcharge on stamp responsibility for second home consumers was introduced in by the earlier Tory authorities in 2016, with the speed hiked by current Chancellor Rachel Reeves last October in a brutal transfer designed to goal the rich and increase Treasury coffers.