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BRAGGART Prime Minister David Cameron lost some of his swagger yesterday in a row over the Tories’ close links to tax-dodging City hedge funds.
A display of animal-like baying from bully-boy Tory backbenchers failed to protect Mr Cameron from a surgical Commons attack by Labour leader Ed Miliband.
Six times Mr Miliband challenged the Prime Minister to reveal why he had failed to close a loophole allowing hedge funds to save hundreds of millions of pounds in tax by avoiding stamp duty.
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