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    Starmer has shot himself inthe foot Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on November 19, 2020, 1:01 pm, in reply to "Who elected this ouanqueur?....nm"

    Apart from Ed Vaizey, that was the general opinion on Politics Live just now.

    Earlier La Hodge was giving it large against Jeremy Corbyn on the BBC airwaves. Doesn't she know when to leave off?

    Perhaps she should put her own house in order.

    The Oppenheimers' family company, Stemcor, which had been founded by Hodge's father, Hans Oppenheimer, was run by her brother, Ralph, until September 2013. In November 2012, Helia Ebrahimi, The Daily Telegraph's City Correspondent, raised the issue of Hodge's suitability as Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, reporting that her family's company "pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business generated in the UK". This led to an investigation into the tax arrangements of a number of American companies operating in the United Kingdom. In April 2015, The Times reported that Hodge had benefited from the closure in 2011 of a Liechtenstein foundation which held shares in Stemcor, using the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility, a legal means of returning undisclosed assets to the UK with reduced penalties. Hodge gained 96,000 shares worth £1,500,000 as a result. Hodge said she had played no part in administering or establishing the scheme. She explained: "All I could do as a shareholder in a company not run by me, and over which I had no influence or control, was to ensure that any shares I held were above board and that I paid all relevant taxes in full. Every time I received any benefit from the company this happened."

    What a horrible hypocrite. How dare she pass judgement on others.

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