£200m of aid budget to be spent on St Helena airport – after lobbying from Lord Ashcroft
The government has approved £200 million of the aid budget to be spent building an airport for St Helena – after lobbying from £127m tax dodger Lord Ashcroft.
Lord Ashcroft
Another week, another Tory tax exile – only this time the Daily Mail sinks him
They just don’t seem to learn. Barely a week after appointing famed billionaire tax avoider Sir Philip Green to advise the Government on cost-cutting, the Tories have been at it again, trying to appoint multi-millionaire tax exile David Rowland as Tory Party Treasurer.
Did Cameron use “loose language” to describe Ashcroft loan?
David Cameron faces accusations of using “loose language” to describe a loan to the Conservative party. But was the original loan from Michael Ashcroft?
Stop press: Unions support Labour
Two stories in today’s Times examine the shock revelation that the trade unions are due to play a prominent role in the forthcoming election.
Cameron knew Ashcroft tax status “in last month”
Liam Fox this afternoon admitted that David Cameron knew Lord Ashcroft was a non-dom “within the last month”. He refused to say when William Hague first knew.
Hague in June: I have no reason to think Ashcroft hasn’t complied
William Hague assured Tony Blair that Ashcroft would pay “tens of millions a year in tax”. In June, Hague said he had “no reason to think that he’s not complied.”
Millions stand behind me
On the day that a petition was launched asking Lord Ashcroft to pay back the £127 million in unpaid tax, we leave the final word to the irrepressible MyDavidCameron spoof poster site. To reach hundreds of thousands of new readerstest
Sign the petition to demand Cameron’s pal Aschroft pays back the £127 million he avoided
A petition has been launched demanding Tory deputy chair Lord Ashcroft of Belize pay back the £127 million he avoided paying in tax since 2000.
Questions mount for Tories over The Aschcroft Supremacy
Tax dodger Lord Ashcroft donated £4.7m – 78% of money spent by the Tories in key marginals, much higher than the 2% figure they’ve been spinning.
Facebook group on Lord Ashcroft’s tax status piles on the pressure
The reason for the Tories’ growing discomfort on the issue of Lord Ashcroft is that continuing lack of clarity about his tax status undermines their positioning