There's no way Baroness Scotland should be allowed to keep her job as Attorney General after admitting that she employed an illegal immigrant. It would be like Alastair Darling remaining as Chancellor after being convicted of robbing a bank.
Still, there's no excuse for the double standards evident in some of the media reportage. I'm thinking in particular of the Mail on Sunday, which has today published said immigrant's account of the affair. Reportedly, the MoS paid up to £100,000 for the exclusive rights to the story, with the usual 25% cut going to the oleaginous Max Clifford. On what basis is it verboten for Baroness Scotland to pay an illegal immigrant for services rendered, but perfectly OK for the Mail on Sunday to do the same thing?
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