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Calls for tax loopholes to be closed, as BP post ‘obscene’ profits
A BP filling station on Spekehall Road in Liverpool, Merseyside

BP’S CONTINUING “obscene” profits have sparked calls for Labour to close “supertanker-sized loopholes” in the windfall tax on oil and gas giants.

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