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Shed had filed to pay the correct tax on a new property; to critics that is an act of particular hypocrisy given her career of denouncing the tax of her rivals.

given 在此处是介词，”考虑到“的意思

她没有正确足额支付其新房产的税，这让她的批评者看来这种行为是一种特别虚伪的作法，因为她一直都是以谴责其竞争对手税务问题而为己任的。

单词

trade-union （英属国家）工会 Tory 保守党

shake-up 重大重组

standard-bearer 旗手

reshuffle 改组

on the ground=base on

conceded = acknowledge 确认

honorific 荣誉的