❗️HYPOCRISY ALERT❗️ LESS THAN 2 YEARS AGO, STARMER TELLS THE CHAMBER THAT ANY MP WHO AVOIDS PAYING TAX IS NOT FIT TO BE IN CHARGE OF TAXPAYER'S MONEY! WITH RAYNER SITTING RIGHT BESIDE HIM!

Rayner. My thoughts. Do I blame somebody for trying to lawfully reduce their tax bill? No. Do I think she’s a stinking hypocrite who should resign? Yes. It’s the hypocrisy I detest. These people have layered regulation on regulation, hiking up tax and making the system increasingly impossible to navigate without expensive help. It’s people like Rayner who cheered all this on, relentlessly. Had she raised concerns about the complexity of our system, and made attempts to reduce it, I would have more sympathy. She didn’t, and I don’t. Now she’s breaking down in tears, talking about her family and so on. Quite frankly, I don’t care. Don’t pull that card. She can’t expect the rest of the British people to pay their ‘fair’ share of tax, but when it comes round to her turn she ducks the swing. No thanks. It does not work like that. Do the country a favour and resign. Politics is increasingly about personality and not policy. I am bored of it. The British people are bored of it. Party politics is boring. I want to campaign on issues, not personalities. Move on, Angela.

On 6th February last year whilst in Opposition Angela Rayner tabled and voted for a motion which sought to prevent outgoing ministers from receiving severance pay if they breach the ministerial code She surely cannot accept that severance pay now 1/