Toby Young Toby Young

People in glass houses…

<p class="p1">When it comes to not practising what you preach, the Guardian and the Mirror take the biscuit</p>

issue 11 November 2017

Stories about members of the establishment using offshore tax shelters — ooh er missus! — come along about once a year, thanks to the efforts of the liberal media. Cue a chorus of disapproval from Jeremy Corbyn, Vince Cable, Margaret Hodge and other left-wing panjandrums who demand that the government ‘seize’ Britain’s overseas territories and ‘clamp down’ on tax loopholes.

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