Angela Rayner became the seventh minister to resign under prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s government today following her stamp duty payment scandal.
Sir Keir’s ethics adviser found she had breached the ministerial code after failing to pay £40,000 in stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in Hove.
Rayner’s resignation from her role as deputy prime minister comes as a huge blow for Sir Keir, who has faced a shake up of ministers after creating two new senior roles at number 10 since parliament returned from its summer recess this week.
Six other ministers have either resigned over conflicts with government proposals, such as cuts to disability and aid funding, while other ministers including Andrew Gynne and Rushanara Ali have been forced to step down following scandals.
Along with Rayner, here’s the full list of ministers who have stepped down from their roles in government over the last 14 months:
Andrew Gwynne
Andrew Gwynne was suspended from the Labour party after his explicit Whatsapp messages were exposed by the Mail on Sunday, revealing he had sent offensive and abusive messages.
In February it was revealed that Gwynne sent texts in which he said he hoped a pensioner who did not support him would die before the next election.
Gwynne, who was acting as health minister at the time, was also accused of writing a series of messages containing racist and sexist comments about fellow MPs Angela Rayner and Diane Abbott.
According to the Mail on Sunday, Gwynne joked about a constituent being “mown down” by a truck, and he wrote he hoped a 72-year-old woman would soon be dead after writing to her local councillor about bin collections.
Rushanara Ali
Rushanara Ali resigned as homelessness minister in August after it was revealed she evicted four tenants from a property she owned, only to re-let it weeks later with an increase of £700 to the rent.
The tenants did not have their fixed term rental contract renewed as Ali claimed she planned to sell the property.
However, shortly after leaving the property, the former tenants discovered the flat returned to market with a rental increase from £3,300 to £4,000, as first reported by the iPaper.
Ali remains in the party as a backbencher, representing Bethnal Green and Stepney.
Vicky Foxcroft
In March 2025, Labour whip Vicky Foxcroft, responsible for ensuring disciple among the party’s MPs, resigned because she did not support the government’s plans to make cuts to welfare payments.
Foxcroft, who served as the shadow disability minister before the election, said she could not vote for Labour’s proposed cuts to disability payments.
Anneliese Dodds
International development minister Anneliese Dodds resigned in February over the prime minister’s cuts to the aid budget.
In a letter to Sir Keir, Dodds said cuts to international aid would deprive desperate people of food and healthcare, which would harm the UK’s reputation.
She said the cuts looked like they were "being portrayed as following in President Trump's slipstream of cuts to USAID".
She remains as Labour MP for Oxford East.
Tulip Siddiq
The former treasury minister, Tulip Siddiq, resigned in January over claims that her family ties to her aunt Sheikh Hasina were harming the government.
This is due to Sheik Hasina having been ousted as the prime minister of Bangladesh due to allegations of corruption.
However, Siddiq remains a Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate.
Louise Haigh
Louise Haigh was the first minister to resign from Sir Keir’s government in November 2024.
Haigh resigned as transport secretary after pleading guilty to the fraud offence of wrongly reporting a mobile phone as stolen to the police in 2013.
She resigned last November after admitting she told the police her work mobile had been stolen in a mugging, only to later find it had not been taken.
Haigh did claim the offence had been spent and that she declared it to Sir Keir in 2020 when she became shadow minister.
