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.

Deputy PM Angela Rayner stayed at the $2.5 million New York apartment owned by Lord Alli over New Year while on a personal getaway, which she registered under Parliament's rules

Angela Rayner has denied she broke any rules over the donated use of a New York apartment owned by the Labour peer Lord Alli. It has emerged that a fellow Labour MP, Sam Tarry, joined for parts of her stay at the apartment but was not named in the parliamentary declaration laying out details of the donation.

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