The Landlady

That irrepressible comedienne, Baroness Warsi, has admitted failing to declare the full income from a flat she rents out. Since there are few illegal immigrants in the Cabinet Office and Adam Smith has already resigned, Warsi herself took "full responsibility", and attributed the misdemeanour to an oversight. No further consequences are anticipated, though not necessarily just because Warsi is too dim to be genuinely crooked. Baroness Warsi may be a chairbeing of a political party which believes that employers should have the right to fire people whether or not they have done anything wrong; but it hardly follows from this that Conservative peers should be penalised for breaking the rules, especially if money is involved.