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HMRC actions have very little to do with political merit.
Sorry but no your assumption just dose not follow. HMRCs fines or punishment means way less to public opinion then their own sense of how an MP should behave.
And given Labours current polling. Rayner"s actions intentional or not. Are a distraction the leadership cannot tolerate.
That is exactly why the far right press printed the attacks.
Rayner was the most likely replacement for Starmer. And being slightly more left. Would be unacceptable to their ownership etc.