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ANGER flared in the Commons yesterday as Labour’s Ed Miliband raged against “dodgy” PM David Cameron and senior MPs bombarded HM Revenue and Customs officials over the unfolding HSBC tax-dodge scandal.
Three times the opposition leader challenged Mr Cameron over wealthy Tory donors holding senior positions at the firm and his appointment of the bank’s ex-chief Stephen Green as trade minister.
Three times the PM ducked the question.
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
