For immediate release
The TaxPayers’ Alliance has today (3rd September 2025) invited Angela Rayner to join their campaign following her difficulties in engaging with Britain’s highly complex tax system.
Writing to the deputy prime minister after her acknowledgement that she had not paid enough stamp duty on the purchase of a property, the TPA’s head of campaigns Elliot Keck highlights the TPA’s past campaign to stamp out stamp duty and its current campaign to scrap inheritance tax. The letter notes that by joining the TPA, Ms Rayner “would be adding [her] voice to a movement that speaks to ordinary taxpayers up and down the country who are fed up with being punished for trying to get on and provide for their families.”
The letter describes Angela Rayner, by setting up a trust, as likely doing “what families up and down the country do all the time in arranging their affairs in a way that ensures their hard-earned wealth goes to their children, not to the state.” Likewise, the letter calls Rayner’s attempt to limit her stamp duty liabilities as “entirely understandable.”
The letter concludes by calling for the abolition of both stamp duty and inheritance tax as an “absolute priority.”
Elliot Keck, head of campaigns of the TaxPayers' Alliance, added:
"Inheritance tax and stamp duty are two of Britain’s most pointless and punitive taxes.
“It’s difficult to not have sympathy for anyone who faces huge bills for these lousy levies, and we hope that the deputy prime minister will use her significant influence to campaign for their immediate abolition.”
"We would be happy for her to throw in her weight behind our own campaigns on these taxes.”
TPA spokespeople are available for live and pre-recorded broadcast interviews via 07795 084 113 (no texts)
Media contact:
Elliot Keck
Head of Campaigns, TaxPayers' Alliance
[email protected]
24-hour media hotline: 07795 084 113 (no texts)
Notes to editors:
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Founded in 2004 by Matthew Elliott and Andrew Allum, the TaxPayers' Alliance (TPA) campaigns to reform taxes and public services, cut waste and speak up for British taxpayers. Find out more at www.taxpayersalliance.com.
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TaxPayers' Alliance's research council.
- The TaxPayers' Alliance is currently running a campaign to scrap inheritance tax and for many years ran a campaign to stamp out stamp duty