For the Daily Mail understands that Dorneywood, a 21-room grace-and-favour mansion, has been given not to Ms Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, but to Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Treasury has repeatedly refused to publish the list of guests entertained by the Chancellor at the Dorneywood estate in Buckingham. Labour suspects the taxpayer-funded pad is being used for “party ...