As time has passed, though, the pattern has become impossible to ignore. Angela Rayner’s £40,000 underpayment of stamp duty on her flat, which remains under investigation by HMRC. The anti-corruption minister caught up in corruption investigations against her aunt, a former ruler of Bangladesh. The transport minister’s failure to declare a spent conviction for fraud when she joined the cabinet. At least they resigned. The chancellor who turned out to have exaggerated her CV, and failed to obtain a selective council licence to rent her home, despite emails showing her husband knew all about it, is still in post.