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Originally Posted by Flyboy
It is now ten years since Ashcroft was elevated to the House of Lords on the understanding that he becomes a UK tax payer, but whenever the question about his tax status is asked, there is never a straightforward answer.
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Perhaps he's as confused about that as Lord Mandelson (that unelected guy pretty much running the country right now) was about the relevance of his 'secret' loan from a New Labour millionaire to that pesky mortgage application... Of course Mandelson (twice previously forced to resign*) didn't face any such selection criteria when panic pants Gordon whisked him back from Brussels, gave him his title and installed him as his right hand man in No.10!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ce-before.html
Of course had New Labour not done another of their famous about turns, maybe there'd be laws preventing non-domiciled benefactors funding our political parties.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/au...nding-election
Now I wonder why they did that? Anyone would think they're short of a bob or two....
