The Telegraph somehow out-does Farage on hypocrisy over tax dodging

The Telegraph ran a front page skewering Angela Rayner for dodging £40,000 in stamp duty when buying a third home in Hove, East Sussex. Why a Housing Minister needs three homes during a housing crisis is another matter. But the dodge led to Rayner’s resignation as said minister and as Deputy Leader of Labour.

Nigel Farage called for her to go, despite himself allegedly dodging tax through reportedly getting his partner to purchase another home with his money. He also gets paid for GB News media work via a company he owns, dodging income tax, while paying a lower rate of corporation tax instead. The hypocrisy couldn’t get worse from right wingers, one might think.

Conservatives and Telegraph joust for hypocrisy award

Not that it means careerist Rayner is in the clear, but the Telegraph is potentially even worse than Farage. The paper has in fact published several guides in how to avoid tax, including on second homes.

That said, Farage has also worked for a company called Nomad Capitalist that exists to help rich people avoid tax. It explains to the well off how to obtain passports for countries where they can enjoy less costly tax status. So apparently immigration isn’t an issue for Farage when the super rich do it. That’s another string to the hypocrisy bow.

Clarkson wades in

Apparently more conservatives are vying for the hypocrisy prize because Jeremy Clarkson joined the discussion.

We paid for Angela Rayner’s education. We paid her wages when she worked for the local council. We paid her wages when she became an MP. We even paid the settlement that enabled her to buy a house. Tax payers have funded every aspect of her entire life.

— Jeremy Clarkson (@JeremyClarkson) September 5, 2025

This led people to point out that Clarkson bought a farm to avoid inheritance tax. Then, at a protest against Labour raising inheritance tax for farm estates, Clarkson admitted he would still avoid the tax:

People like me will simply put it in a trust

On top of that, licence fee payers have funded Clarkson’s inflated salary, while tax also rebalances the economy towards public services that Clarkson benefits from.

Professional opportunists and sh*t stirers at the Telegraph and Farage have long gone on about ‘two tier justice’. But as usual right wingers are held to lower standards than anyone even slightly to the left.

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