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I don't care if she owes 40k to the tax man. It has nothing to do with the job.
It undermines the whole system if the stewerds of tax income themselves evade tax. They can pass a law to remove a tax or add a tax but they need to pay as we have to.
It undermines the whole system when people who are guilty of greater crimes are able to harass people out of democratically elected office.
If she stood for election again with this now out in the public knowledge I'm sure she'd still win her seat without issue.
A Labour leader with backbone would use this an an opportunity to investigate the tax-evasion practices of every media-owning oligarch. In those cases, we're talking potential billions of pounds, not ยฃ40k.
But she is paying.