Peterborough has become something of a political lodestar for Keir Starmer’s Labour. The Cambridgeshire city hosted the launch of the party’s ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs’ campaign last July and provided one of the few bright spots on local election night this year, helping to elect the area’s first Labour combined authority mayor in Nik Johnson. The Economist even interpreted the result as an indication of the Brexit realignment, with southern, affluent areas appearing to countenance voting Labour for the first time in a generation.
Given Peterborough’s political prominence in recent months, Mr S was therefore surprised to discover that Shaz Nawaz, the leader of the Labour group on the council has been giving advice on his YouTube property channel about his ‘favourite tax saving strategies’ despite his leader’s pledge to ‘clamp down on tax avoidance.’ Nawaz, a tax accountant who bills himself as ‘the profits wizard’, last week uploaded part two of his ‘Property Proficiency Workshop’ in which he explains how to ‘achieve true financial freedom’ by primarily focusing on ways to beat the taxman.
He tells viewers: ‘In this video, I’m going to focus primarily on tax savings, simply because if you save a pound in tax you have to do no extra work whereas to make a pound extra in your business, you’ve got to first create something.’
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