| Topic: | Re:Dodgy dealings of Rayner | |
| Posted by: | Richard Carter | |
| Date/Time: | 16/04/24 10:27:00 |
| I'm not a particular fan of Angela Rayner, but the snide attacks on her, here and elsewhere are really unpleasant. There's a very good letter in today's Times about her that I fully agree with. He says: Sir, Having served for nine years as an MP I know how low politicians can stoop when their backs are against the wall. But the Conservative attack on Angela Rayner is one of the most grotesque spectacles of hypocrisy I have witnessed. On one side is a billionaire Tory peer, Lord Ashcroft, and a multimillionaire Tory prime minister, Rishi Sunak, whose families have all avoided paying millions of pounds in UK tax as beneficiaries of non-dom status and who live lives of luxury. On the other is a woman who grew up in poverty caring for her illiterate mother, who is now mother to a child who is registered blind, and who through her own guts and character has risen to be deputy leader of the Labour Party. Even Rayner’s accusers accept that the most she might have benefited from the error that they allege — and which she denies — is less than £3,000 in tax. I suppose that her attackers cannot bear the idea that they are about to lose to a woman who pulled herself up by her bootstraps. And who is going wipe the floor with them. Nick Boles London SE5 |