The former DPP and then Labour candidate Keir Starmer campaigned extensively on tax issues before he was first elected in 2015. At the time he said:
“Starmer, now a Labour candidate in the general election for Holborn and St Pancras, said: “Tax evasion involving dishonest fraud is not a sort of fraud, it is fraud. It is criminal and it should be treated as all other fraud is treated. In my view, criminal prosecution should be the default position for tax evasion and not civil penalties. So the default position needs to be changed. “It is very important to send a signal. This is about a culture and you only change a culture by using all the weapons at your disposal and a crown prosecution is a very powerful weapon. People go to prison for quite significant periods of time.”’
He made similar comments to the BBC in 2013: “There is a longstanding myth that unlike many other offences that the CPS has to deal with, tax evasion is a victimless crime. But many would be outraged if money was stolen from their personal bank accounts.”
Angela Rayner has referred herself to the PM’s ethics adviser and HMRC after media reports into her housing situation, admitting she underpaid stamp duty. It’s not clear whether she will claim any underpayment was her not fault or exactly how what she says is an “error” was made…
Either way, she could end up having to pay tens of thousands to the taxman. Can Rayner survive the afternoon, let alone the rest of the week?
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