“Oh, f…”: Now Maria Miller’s Cabinet colleagues are stabbing her in the back. By accident?
The Ministry of Justice has just announced that £14 million, taken from criminals’ ill-gotten gains, will be used to help their victims.
How much of this will come from the fraudster Maria Miller?
None.
What an awkward, mistimed moment – another in a series for which this Conservative-led administration should be justly famous.
Here we all are, stridently discussing the future of a Cabinet minister (Miller) who clearly defrauded the taxpayer out of tens of thousands of pounds to pay for mortgage interest on a house she then sold for more than £1 million profit – and her Cabinet colleague Chris Grayling decides now is the time to announce what the government is doing with other criminals’ ill-gotten gains.
This will merely intensify calls for Miller to face trial and conviction, and for her financial…
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