Stories about Zahawi's tax affairs aren't new. His use of tax havens was reported in *2013*, despite apparent legal threats against local press. He's had years of ducking & dodging on his tax affairs, swerving scrutiny at every turn - he simply has to go #PMQs
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Anti-corruption: SnrAdr Tax Justice Network;Ex-Trustee SpotlightonCorruption, Global Witness, Transparency Intl; Saracens, LibDems, Humanism, Politics/Economics
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🚨 📈 REVEALED: PPE losses rise to a staggering £14.9 billion, according to DHSC's annual accounts
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BREAKING NEWS: Kevin McCarthy just kicked me off the House Intelligence Committee.
And here’s why: I fought him and Donald Trump when they tried to tear down our democracy.
If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out differently.
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We are designating Wagner Group as a Transnational Criminal Organization. In addition to their abuses in Ukraine, Wagner operatives regularly commit abuses in Africa. Countries that invite criminals to solve their security problems find themselves robbed and held hostage instead.
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We took actions today to degrade Russia’s capacity to wage war against Ukraine and to promote accountability for abuse by sanctioning those supporting the Wagner Group’s operations worldwide, producers of Russia’s weapons, and those administering Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine.
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Anne Widdecombe says the NHS was not meant to be about 'free health care for everyone including billionaires'. But that is precisely what the NHS was meant to be about. #PoliticsLive
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Eye-opening story from - sources tell them Sunak was informed about the probe into Zahawi's tax affairs, when he was chancellor back in June. And that a penalty may be levied.
Downing Street categorically deny the story.
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Charging sick people for being sick would end the NHS as we know it. Don't accept paying for your right to healthcare. Sign the petition here #DontYouDare 38d.gs/72fz
🔴 Minutes of Boris Johnson Meeting with Cambridge Analytica ‘Would Directly Undermine Trust Between the UK and US’ –
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With impeccable timing ex chancellor Philip Hammond gets a new gig as chairman of a crypto exchange and warns the UK is falling behind in the Ponzi - sorry “digital assets” - industry
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Important to remember that Brexit & Boris Johnson didn't just inflict epic & utterly unnecessary damage on the country, they necessitated the governing party getting rid of anyone prepared to act with integrity & honesty
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On the Zahawi tax affair, former chancellor, Lord Philip Hammond tells @IanKingSky “I would not want to accept the office of chancellor if I was at that time involved in a live negotiation of a tax case with HMRC”
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🚨BREAKING: No penalties for ‘innocent tax errors’, says HMRC boss amid Zahawi probe
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New: HMRC Chief Jim Harra tells MPs "there are no penalties for innocent errors in your tax affairs".
Harra explains that nobody would be penalised if they take "reasonable care" but make mistakes.
Nadhim Zahawi doesn't deny paying a penalty in his multi-million £ settlement.
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UK to make ‘failure to prevent fraud’ a criminal offence via
Important changes to the law on fraud - the ability to ensure that prevention means controls in place
Nick Clegg must be proud as he announces that Donald Trump to be allowed back onto Facebook and Instagram. ‘We no longer agree with Nick” #Meta
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Brexit did this- UK car production collapses to lowest for 66 years - as we now offer less to manufacturers than before #Brexit! Tories still in power as the economy sinks
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The only thing worse than Tory corruption twitter.com/Jakdaw09/statu is it total unwillingness to stem it even when everyone can see it. How Zahawi remains Chairman of Tories is only fathomable to Tories (a dwindling band) not to anyone else!
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Tory corruption comes at you so thick and fast - Johnson/Sharp/BBC; Zadawi/HMRC; Sunak/FPN (seat belt). So fast, it must be Tory strategy to max corruption so as to confuse the voters. Remember PPE/Test&Trace/Hancock/Owen Paterson & lobbying/ Partygate...? theguardian.com/politics/2021/
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290 Conservative MPs have voted against a Liberal Democrat amendment which would have forced the Government to release their review of the Golden Visa scheme.
We know Putin’s cronies used and abused this scheme - so why won’t the Government give us the full picture?
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‘The really troubling aspect of this was why was this letter written at all’
Former Attorney General Dominic Grieve questions why Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyers sent a letter implying potential libel action to tax expert Dan Neidle
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Following the story from about Prigozhin’s attempts to silence , we had a UQ from
Minister’s confessed sanctions implementation is out of control
Warlords are hiring English lawyers to sue English journos in English courts
It has to stop!
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Today + other MPs are seeking to get anti-SLAPP amendments into the Economic Crime Bill 2 #ECB2. We have often seen SLAPPs deployed to used to frustrate or suppress investigations into financial crime & corruption. 14/
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2/. And on Wednesday we COULD change the law - if ministers accept our amendment to ban Strategic Legal Actions Against Public Participants - and stop our courts being used to silence truth tellers like
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I also raised the issue in the 's session on 'Lawfare and free speech' yesterday afternoon. There are many questions still to be answered, crucially whether sanctioned individuals could still be granted licenses in this way? twitter.com/FPCThinkTank/s 11/
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Yesterday at @UKHouseofLords Communication and Digital Committee, FPC's Director @skcoughtrie highlighted the case brought against @EliotHiggin by Putin ally Prigozhin.
Even as a sanctioned individual, Prigozhin was able to use the UK courts to try and silence a UK journalist
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UPDATE 🧵: Been a real #SLAPPs week in Parliament, as yesterday MP Bob Seely () presented an anti-SLAPP bill incorporating key components of the UK Model Law drawn up by the UK anti-SLAPP Coalition. 9/
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According to , Cabinet Secretary Simon Case “appears to have been involved in facilitating and clearing the £800,000 (from Sam Blythe to Boris Johnson) then deciding it could be kept secret”. Simon Case is the most senior civil servant in Government.
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If you think Gullis should be sacked for this then lets retweet and get it trending
#ToriesOut202 #SunakOut93 #GeneralElectionNow
#EnoughIsEnough
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Tulip Sadiq asks the prime minister about the welfare of 200 unaccompanied migrant children who’ve gone missing.
Tory MP Jonathan Gullis heckles ‘well they shouldn’t have come here illegally’.
Just when you think you’ve heard it all, the Tory Party find a new low
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Why are UK politicians so slow to understand geopolitical realities? bbc.co.uk/news/uk-644000 Enabling Prigozhin to sue in UK courts deserves the highest condemnation. We only change the rules after something goes badly wrong. Why?
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Stark editorial - how the UK is collapsing in on itself (NHS, monarchy, police, corruption in Parliament...) - much the fault of the 4th Estate that spreads johnsonian lies as if in competition with George Santos for Most Mendacious Oscar
🔴 Why has the government refused to investigate Kremlin interference in UK politics, asks.
Our podcast will expose the untold story behind the #RussiaReport cover-up, but we need your donations and support to do it 👇
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Simply incredible. In the Urgent Question in minister just admitted sanction enforcement basically out of ministerial control. You couldn’t make it up
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Unbelievable. The Tories gave sanction waivers to warlords - a green light to Wagner Group boss Prigozhin to fly lawyers to Russia to polish his effort to silence @bellingcat. Today in @HouseofCommons I thanked @jimfitznews & @openDemocracy for the story - & demanded answers
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This is in Terezin, a Czech town where the Nazis ran a fortress and ghetto for Jews (Thereisenstadt).
I had become friendly with two lovely people called Julie and Gidon, who was a survivor…
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Would have preferred something substantial from the PM in response to the question on Prigozhin's legal action about me, sounded like waffle to me.
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Reminder that Rishi Sunak didn’t resign over any of the sleaze scandals that hit Boris Johnson
In his own words he quit because he felt their approaches to the economy were "fundamentally too different"
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Yes it's the 'cosiness in the upper echelons of public appointments' which is so pernicious. They all know each other, often went to school and/or university together, socialise together, and that's even before you get to the Tory links
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EXCL: Govt-appointed panel that approved Richard Sharp as BBC chair included Tory donor & wife of Boris Johnson’s ex-boss at Spectator - @marksweney
theguardian.com/media/2023/jan
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Can anyone read this headline and seriously tell me this government doesn’t have destroying the NHS in its sights?
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"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell
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A trick the BBC uses to distort:
Corruption gets called "sleaze"
Far-right thugs get called "right wing activist"
Wealthy sex offenders get called "disgraced"
And chums of Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson get called "chairman of the BBC"
#Newsnight
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Several people, including - shockingly - some BBC presenters, are referring to the BBC as a state broadcaster. It isn't. It's a PUBLIC broadcaster and the difference is real and significant. (Even if some want to pretend it isn't)
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Navalny, which features the work of , is nominated for the Oscar for Documentary Feature.
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Three cheers to for successfully bringing in a bill today to prevent SLAPPS - abusive lawsuits by the superrich seeking to silence critics -- a model he rightly called "legal gangsterism" used by "organised crime, authoritarian states and their oligarch proxies".
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No better way to spread the word about human rights abuse than through Hollywood. I’m so happy that Alexei Navalny’s story has been nominated for an Academy Award. Hopefully this will put more pressure on the Russian government to release him.
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The Navalny documentary is nominated for the OSCARS!!! Incredibly humbled and honored. Thank you
#FreeNavalny
#Oscars2023
#OscarNominations2023
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