Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including MPs debating and voting on the first day of the EU withdrawal bill’s committee stage 1.55pm GMT Andrew Mitchell, the Conservative former chief whip and former international development secretary, is speaking now. He says this is not really a party political issue, because all parties want to tackle tax avoidance. He says the only criticism of the current government might be that it is not moving fast enough. 1.49pm GMT Peter Dowd, the shadow chief secretary, to the Treasury, is speaking now. He says it is clear what the government should do. It should adopt Labour’s tax transparency and enforcement programme (pdf). Continue reading…
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