It seems that Baroness Scotland, the Attorney-General, has been caught very nastily. As the Government’s chief law officer, she was quite properly responsible for promoting legislation closing loopholes for those who employed non-British citizens whose immigration status prevented them from working. Now she has been found employing a cleaner who was indeed in Britain on a visa which precluded working.
Lady Scotland has denied any culpability in this matter, saying that she had been shown documents which confirmed her cleaner’s right to work. Obviously the courts will have to rule on this, and it is quite right that legal judgment be suspended until they have pronounced.
However, my own interest is sparked by my knowledge that many illegal immigrants are employed for the purpose of undercutting the national minimum wage. Whatever the immigration status of Baroness Scotland’s cleaner, I would be interested to know what the Tongan lady was being paid. If a Labour Attorney-General has employed the wrong person in genuine ignorance, she may survive; if she has not been paying the minimum wage, she will certainly not. Information, please.
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