Outrage at 'Error' by Baroness ; Why Wasn't Cleaner Quizzed? [Scot Region]
Daily Mail › September 23, 2009
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BARONESS Scotland provoked outrage last night after comparing her breach of immigration law with a minor motoring offence.
As the Government's chief legal officer faced the humiliation of a Pounds 5,000 fine for employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper, she appeared to dismiss it as the equivalent of forgetting to pay the Pounds 8 daily congestion charge for motorists in London.See the full content of this document
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Outrage at 'Error' by Baroness ; Why Wasn't Cleaner Quizzed? [Scot Region]
'It's like driving into the City and not paying the congestion charge,' she said. 'It is not a criminal offence. I made an administrative, technical error for which I am bitterly, bitterly sorry.' Gordon Brown was accused of 'breathtaking complacency' for not sacking the Attorney General on the spot. The Prime Minister accepted that she should stay on because she had committed only a 'technical' breach of strict rules that she herself steered through Parliament.
Critics said the rushed inquiry, completed in a few days, left a string of u...See the full content of this document
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