Greater Manchester Police have launched an investigation into Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner.

She has been accused of potentially breaking electoral law by failing to properly disclose her main residence in official documents.

Ms Rayner denies this.

A police spokesperson said: “We’re investigating whether any offences have been committed. This follows a reassessment of the information provided to us by Mr Daly.”

Ms Rayner is said to have given different addresses on the electoral roll and on two birth certificates.

The new probe comes after James Daly, deputy chairman of the Conservative Party, made Greater Manchester Police aware of neighbours contradicting Ms Rayner’s statement that a property, separate from her husband’s, was her main residency.

The Bury North MP claims Ms Rayner may have made a false declaration about where she was living on the electoral register.

Ms Rayner, nee Bowen, bought the semi-detached home in 2007, getting a 25% discount under the Right to Buy scheme introduced by former Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

She was registered as living at Vicarage Road, Stockport, in Greater Manchester, on the electoral roll until she sold the property in 2015.

But she appears to have given two different addresses when she re-registered the births of two of her children in 2010 following her marriage to Mark Rayner.

Consequently – Greater Manchester Police have launched an investigation into Labour’s deputy leader Angela Rayner.