BREAKING: Angela Rayner sparks explosive GMB row as Kate Garraway and Ed Balls jump to defend

A fierce row erupted on Thursday's Good Morning Britain as Conservative party chairman Kevin Hollinrake called for Angela Rayner to be sacked.

It comes as the Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner admitted she had not paid enough tax on her second home.

Rayner held her hands up to the mistake and has referred herself to the independent ethics commissioner, who is going to look into the matter, to see whether it was an inadvertent mistake. However, Hollinrake believes she should resign right now - but Kate and Ed made their opposing stance clear.

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"I think she should resign, I don't think her position is tenable," Hollinrake said this morning. "The situation is she's deputy prime minister, Housing Secretary and this is a matter that relates to housing. The information is readily available. If you look on the HMRC website it clearly sets out on the first page that trust count in terms of a primary home."

Hollinrake then continued to say that it had to be taken into account that both Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner have been "so outspoken in terms of tax avoidance".

Continuing, he said: "This goes beyond tax avoidance. Tax avoidance is the lawful mechanism to reduce tax, but this is not lawful," as he said he "doesn't see how she can just categorise this as an error."

Kate Garraway then stepped in and said the chairman had made a lot of accusations but said they were waiting for the independent inquiry. She then went on to mention Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi who was found to have underpaid tax by £5 million.

She then questioned why Angela Rayner was being held to a different standard to which Hollinrake replied: "She's held herself to a different standard. If this had been a Conservative member today, she would be calling for their resignation."

Kate wasn't having any of it however, as she interrupted: "You're now calling for her resignation, you're saying that she's unlawful. Does that mean anybody in opposition who accuses anything of a government has to resign even if it turns out it's been proved that she's made a mistake? Which she's admitted and paying the money - you're now saying she should go automatically?"