Summary
WILLIAM Hague admitted yesterday he should never have claimed Lord Ashcroft would pay "tens of millions of pounds" more in tax when he was pushing for the Tory donor to be awarded a peerage.
The shadow foreign secretary insisted he had had no knowledge of the tax position - despite having put it at the heart of his case for giving Michael Ashcroft a seat in the House of Lords.See the full content of this document
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Hague Wrong On Ashcroft Tax Pledge
He had made the claim in a letter to the then prime ...
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