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When you stand back and look at it, Rachel Reeves’ rental scandal brutally exposes all that is rotten in this lousy Labour Party! When it was revealed that she had let out her south London home without securing the legally required licence—breaking the very rules she is sworn to uphold as Chancellor—her first instinct was not contrition or transparency, but denial. This is the Labour default position!
They think the rules are for US, not them.
She insisted that neither she nor her husband knew that a licence was required. The truth, swiftly unearthed, was that they had been informed precisely of this by their own letting agent. The email evidence was hiding in plain sight. She has misled the Prime Minister.
Not only did Reeves mislead Starmer and his ethics adviser but she then feebly threw her husband and then the letting agency under the bus! Of course we all can see that Starmer is desperate to keep the scandal off the headlines. So he moved at midnight to declare Reeves innocent, hand-waving the debacle as an “inadvertent error”
This isn’t regrettable; it’s scandalous. Nothing in Starmer’s defence can erase the fact: Reeves rented out her property illegally, raked in up to £38,000 from tenants, and only admitted her guilt after being cornered by documentary proof.
So much for Starmer’s boasts that he made about leading a competent ethical Government. Sleaze hangs over his Government.
We’re all expected to believe that Southwark Council’s laws don’t apply to Reeves, though the Council has prosecuted more than 200 other people for this breach in the law.
Her case perfectly illustrates the toxic double standards Labour now embodies.
Reeves is not the victim here but the architect of her own disgrace.
If Reeves had any integrity, she would resign in shame. It’s my view that Starmer will keep her until after the Budget and then move her in the New Year.
Turns out that Rachel from Accounts cannot account for her own finances!
