Yesterday at #PMQs @DominicRaab tried to patronise and talk down to me. I've done a bit more research on the 115 room mansion, Chevening, that he is fighting over...

1. There is no mention of Chevening on the Charity Commission website so it does not appear to be a charity
2. Chevening has received taxpayers' money whilst the Conservatives have been in office.

3. The estate is exempt from paying taxes, so the taxpayer does in fact subsidise and therefore fund the estate.

4. The Chevening Estate Act says that the trust is not a charity.
5. But more importantly, why is @DominicRaab trying to justify the fact that he is more concerned with fighting over access to a 115 room mansion than he is with millions of families who are going to have to choose between eating and heating? He's so out of touch it hurts.
6. Finally, I know @DominicRaab is a lawyer and according to the papers he is a "details man" who likes to be across every detail. I know it hurts being corrected by a girl from a council estate who left school at 16, but I look forward to him correcting the record. Cheers Dom

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