WATCH: Kwasi Kwarteng accuses Angela Rayner of 'robbing the exchequer' amid tax affairs scandal

I mean, look, there were so many things that have gone wrong in this

I mean, firstly, the stamp duty question. Most people just look on the Internet. You've got Internet calculators

Before you buy your house, you say, what tax do I pay on this? You don't need a lawyer

I'd be very interested to see the lawyer's advice, frankly. And then secondly, there's the rank hypocrisy

I mean, I remember she was calling for Tory ministers' heads, not just Nadim Zahawi, but Dominic Raab, others

for falling foul, for falling short on standards. And she's done exactly the same thing relating to tax that she lambasted Zahawi for

And so I think her position is untenable, really. I'm sure we'll go through a merry dance and the prime minister says, oh, I'm going to stick by her and all of that

But I think that her position is very, very difficult. And if she stays, she'll just be a living example of the hypocrisy of the government

And I think politically, her staying will be even more damaging than if she were to resign

Now Kwasi she mentions in mitigation there was a complex situation around her son who has a disability and that prevented her from disclosing certain information She also says she took advice I guess for now we have to take that at face value Yeah we can take that at face value I imagine that the legal firm who gave that advice might be smarting if that not the case

Putting all that to one side, is this just wrapped in excuses

And more to the point, do you think the same excuses would wash if it was a Conservative

Of course they wouldn't wash. I mean, she would be the first if a Tory cabinet minister was in this position

She'd be the first to call for their head. So clearly there's a double standard here, hypocrisy

I'd be very interested to see the advice, because the way lawyers frame advice, it's not often very clear cut

And I'd be very interested to see what they actually said to her. She's obviously hiding behind that as a kind of, you know, a kind of bunker mentality

She's going to cling on to anything to defend her position. But to me, it's very straightforward

You have one main residence and you pay a certain amount of stamp duty. and then if you buy another house, you pay a different rate of stamp duty

It's that clear. And if she wanted more clarity, as I said, there are lots and lots of websites

that make these calculations all the time. People do that all the time when they're about to buy usually their main property