08 April 2016 - David Cameron had stake in father's offshore trust
Activer le mode zenRobert Booth, Holly Watt and David Pegg (The Guardian, 07/04/2016)
David Cameron has finally admitted he benefited from a Panama-based offshore trust set up by his late father.
After three days of stalling and four partial statements issued by Downing Street he confessed that he owned shares in the tax haven fund, which he sold for £31,500 just before becoming prime minister in 2010.
In a specially arranged interview with ITV News’ Robert Peston he confirmed a direct link to his father’s UK-tax avoiding fund, details of which were exposed in the Panama Papers revelations in the Guardian this week.
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Offshore investments
Henry Zeffman (News Stateman, 08/04/2016)
Rather than having his spokesperson initially insist his financial arrangements are a ‘private matter’, the Prime Minister should have said early on Monday what he said last night: that he held shares in his father’s offshore fund until 2010, paying full income tax on the dividends, and then sold them. Instead, the quintet of statements, each one just a little less opaque than the last, made the Prime Minister look not only like he had something to hide, but that he felt entitled to hide it too.
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Political crisis
John McTernan (The Telegraph, 07/04/2016)
In life, you only get one chance to make a first impression. In politics, you only get one chance to make a full and frank disclosure. In and of themselves, the facts do not set you free – it is the handling that matters more than anything else.
The case of David Cameron and his father’s company Blairmore, with its offshore holdings, has been a textbook example of how not to do it. In the course of five days and four statements the Prime Minister’s position has gone from the stonewalling ("[it’s] a private matter") to an admission that Cameron had held shares in Blairmore but sold them shortly before becoming Prime Minister.
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'Morally wrong'
UK Politics (BBC, 08/04/2016)
He said the firm, Blairmore Holdings, had not been set up to avoid tax.
Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the PM had called people who invested in similar schemes "morally wrong".
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