Tax avoidance – Politics Weekly podcast

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Heather Stewart is joined by Juliette Garside, Hilary Osborne, Phillip Inman and Nicholas Shaxson to discuss the industrial-scale tax avoidance revealed in the Paradise Papers leak. Plus Mark Wallace of ConservativeHome on the government’s latest week from hell. Please support our work and help us keep the world informed. To fund us, go to https://www.theguardian.com/give/podcast

8 Nov 2017 English United Kingdom News

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