Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner says she does not believe she has broken parliamentary rules over declaring a stay in a New York flat owned by a Labour donor. She told the BBC that Lord Waheed Alli was a friend and the trip had been a "personal holiday" but she had been "transparent" by disclosing her use of the apartment because he had donated to her in the past.

The Deputy Prime Minister is already facing questions over a five-night New Year stay in a £2million apartment owned by Lord Alli.

Angela Rayner is accused of breaching parliamentary rules by failing to declare she was joined by a friend on a personal holiday funded by Labour donor Lord Alli. The Deputy Prime Minister is reported to have travelled to New York with Sam Tarry,