Come on, Angela Rayner. Show us your papers.
The Labour Party is in a massive mess over her alleged tax scandal, and it goes away overnight if she publishes her tax advice and makes it public.
Sir Keir Starmer, who could himself be forced before the privileges committee and even suspended from parliament over the Gaza ceasefire vote, is absolutely squirming over this.
He told our political editor, Christopher Hope, that he hasn't seen her tax affairs for himself. So he's deliberately refusing to see the evidence.
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I mean the only reason you would do that is if you want to be able to wash your hands of it, if it all goes wrong.
He wasn't saying this, when a Tory politician was under the cosh from HMRC, and Rayner is now using this bizarre line, she's saying that she'll publish her tax affairs if the Tories publish theirs.
Well hang on, the police aren't currently reassessing whether or not to get involved in any Tory tax affairs, are they? As far as we know.
Ms Rayner, a bit of deflection doesn't change the fact that there may well be a capital gains issue on a second home, and the police may well not have investigated that properly and spoken to key witnesses or indeed seen key evidence.
Publish it then. Go on. The problem for Angela Rayner is that A, she would not stand for her own excuses if she was dealing with a Tory, and B, she has quite a long track record of calling for other people to go.
She said this about Boris: "You can't answer a simple question of was you at this party, at your residence or not, during lockdown, when people weren't able to see their loved ones who were dying. It's pretty despicable that he's treated the British public with contempt by not answering that question and trying to hide behind Sue Gray's investigation. This allegation is very serious for the Prime Minister. It's a very simple question. Was you there or not? And if he was there, then his position is untenable."
Treating the public with contempt, hiding behind an investigation. Who are we talking about here, Ms. Rayner?
It's turning into a farce now, isn't it? It's worth noting this. Nobody is asking Angela Rayner to publish 15 years worth of her own personal tax affairs. She is simply being asked to explain why she remained on the electoral register at an address which she didn't live in for five years, according to her neighbours. It's quite simple.
It's also worth noting that the deputy leader of the Labour Party is elected directly by the members, which means that if Angela Rayner goes, and someone like Zarah Sultana decided to stand, someone who has publicly slammed Keir Starmer over Gaza, someone who really represents the old Corbyn days of the party. Well, that could be a big issue, couldn't it?
Could this be why Keir Starmer is refusing to say that Angela Rayner should quit if she is investigated by the police? What's going on there? I'm a bit confused.
Angela Rayner has repeatedly spoken about honesty and integrity and called for others to stand down. Are her chickens now coming to their second homes to roost?
