Angela Rayner accuses SNP of hypocrisy over Michael Matheson's £11,000 iPad roaming bill row
dailyrecord.co.ukLabour’s Deputy Prime Minister-in-waiting is infuriated and on this occasion it’s not the Tories that have provoked her ire.It’s less than 12 hours since Angela Rayner was cleared by HMRC in a tax row over her ex-council home but she is now getting very fiery over an SNP minister’s financial affairs.Straight-talking Rayner pulls no punches on the Scottish Government’s former health secretary Michael Matheson, now facing a police investigation into his £11,000 iPad bill.She said: “Look, I was accused of breaking the law and my response to that was that I will step down and I will resign if I had done that.
I would have. Without question.“But a government minister who claimed £11,000 of taxpayers’ money is still being protected and lauded by the leader of the SNP.
As law-makers, you can’t do that, you’re breaching voters’ trust.“People rightly say it’s one rule for them and one rule for us.
That is the key difference. Whether that’s the Conservatives in Westminister or the SNP here. “I hold myself up to exactly the same standards as ordinary people.
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