Reeves says of Angela Rayner’s ‘expert tax advice‘: “I haven’t asked to see the details and I haven’t asked to see the tax returns or the, tax advice, legal advice of any of my colleagues. This has got to be on a basis of trust.” Nick Ferrari couldn’t help but ask the shadow chancellor whether her 5,000 new HMRC inspectors would be able to ensure “everybody pays their fair share of tax”. Seeing as all you have to do to satisfy the Labour leadership is say that everything is above board according to secret advice…

“What if I’m able to say I’ve got private advice and I did nothing wrong and I’ve paid the right amount of tax, as is the case with one of your senior colleagues?“

Reeves said it was “almost 10 years ago now when she was married to her ex-husband before she was a Member of Parliament“. Rayner was still married to her husband at the time. She also would have had to submit her self-assessment return by January 2016, in respect of the year when she sold her property. In other words, when she was an MP…

At least Reeves has got the date right – this occurred 10 years ago as opposed to 15 as Rayner repeatedly claimed to Newsnight. Rayner gets Reeves’ “trust” and we get 5,000 extra tax inspectors to fill Labour’s imaginary “tax gap”…