So it looks as though that Ed Miliband has won his battle with Lord Fink. The Tory peer has given an interview to the Evening Standard in which he says he did use ‘vanilla’ tax avoidance measures. He told the newspaper:
‘The expression tax avoidance is so wide that everyone does tax avoidance at some level.’
Fink then says he doesn’t want to sue Miliband for saying that he ‘did ordinary tax avoidance’, but that he ‘took exception to’ the suggestion that he was dodgy and that he had questions to answer.
This means that Miliband can quite easily repeat the specific comment he made about Fink in the Commons yesterday, which was this:
‘Let us talk about the difference between the Prime Minister and me. None of those people has given a penny on my watch, and he is up to his neck in this.
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