take the rap for

Speaking to the Sunday Times, Henry Staunton said that when he was sacked Ms Badenoch told him: "Someone's got to take the rap" for Post Office failings - a claim she has denied.

He also told the Sunday Times the alleged request was linked to concerns about the cost of compensation heading into the election - and that Badenoch told him that "someone's got to take the rap" for the Horizon scandal.

Howitt was jailed for four-and-half years for preparing a terrorist act and four months consecutively for perverting the course of justice after he got someone else to take the rap for a speeding offence.

Slip and the gang take the rap for a robbery they did not commit.

A glamour girl loses a playboy to her shy sister and lets him take the rap for a hit-and-run accident.