Richard Littlejohn

Sex, lies and tax returns

All this confected outrage over tax is part of a concerted and sinister attempt to shift the definition of privacy

issue 16 April 2016

Call this a scandal? A few years ago, it wouldn’t have made the cut. If any reporter had taken the David Cameron tax ‘scoop’ into the now-defunct News of the World, he would have been laughed out of the building.

‘OK, just run it by me again. The Prime Minister’s dad was a stockbroker, right? Daddy Cameron operated this fund in Panama, or somewhere, and Dave had a few shares in it.

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