Jeremy Corbyn (2016) on Dave Cameron & the Panama Papers: ‘some at the top think that the rules simply do not apply to them’
The 2016 House of Commons debate on the Panama Papers in which David Cameron was a key figure makes interesting reading in the light of the Lex Greensill affair and Cameron’s lobbying of Rishi Sunak and numbers of others.
The opening paragraph of Corbyn’s statement is below and there is a link to the full debate. This was the occasion when Dennis Skinner was excluded from the Chamber by the Speaker for refusing to withdraw the words ‘Dodgy Dave’
I thank the Prime Minister for advance sight of his statement—it is absolutely a master class in the art of distraction. I am sure that he will join me in welcoming the outstanding journalism that went into exposing the scandal of destructive global tax avoidance that was revealed by Toggle showing location of the Panama papers. Those papers have driven home what many people have increasingly felt: that there is now one rule for the super-rich, and another for the rest. I am honestly not sure that the Prime Minister fully appreciates the anger that is out there over this injustice. How can it be right that street cleaners, teaching assistants and nurses work and pay their taxes, yet some at the top think that the rules simply do not apply to them?
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-04-11/debates/1604111000001/PanamaPapers
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