Labour right linked to freebies from tax dodging finance firm
LABOUR rightwingers faced mounting pressure last night to reject donations from PricewaterhouseCoopers, after MPs exposed the financial firm’s role helping Britain’s biggest tax dodgers.
Senior party figures such as shadow chancellor Ed Balls, education spokesman Tristram Hunt and business shadow Chuka Umunna have all accepted thousands of pounds’ worth of advice as a “donation” to the opposition.
But Commons public accounts committee (PAC) chair Margaret Hodge MP said the use of such freebie assistance was “inappropriate.”
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