Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has reacted to Labour's Angela Rayner being investigated by the Met Police over her residency declarations.

Shapps said: "I think the double standards have been extraordinary. Angela Rayner herself has spent her political career calling people out for exactly the thing that she seems to be doing now.

"It's not acceptable to ignore it, and it's not acceptable for Keir Starmer to say he won't even read reports into it. This is something which is a serious matter. It's important that it's looked into properly, and I welcome the idea that the police are doing that."