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It’s time for you to leave
- Condemned by your own MPs
- Collapsing public confidence
- A festering mess on everything from health to education
- An economy in the doldrums
- And now your own tax affairs are a national embarrassment
THOUSANDS are calling on the Prime Minister to step down today after a series of contradictory statements on David Cameron’s involvement in the Panama Papers scandal finally ended in him coming clean.
Mr Cameron was forced to confess on Thursday evening that he had sold his shares of Blairmore Holdings — a tax haven scheme set up by his father Ian — raking in a reported £31,500.
The fund was discovered among the Mossack Fonseca documents leaked earlier this week.
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