The Coffee House podcast: David Cameron’s tax headache

David Cameron has bowed down to pressure by publishing his tax return and now the Chancellor has done the same. But where will the calls for financial transparency end? And how did this issue blow up into such a big political row? Spectator editor Fraser Nelson joins Isabel Hardman and James Forsyth to talk about the Prime Minister’s tax headache.

Speaking on the podcast, James Forsyth says the whole topic shows Downing Street is so fixated on Europe that it has taken an eye off the ball. He tells Fraser:

‘I think what is going on is this: Europe is totally and utterly distracting Downing Street from everything else. This referendum means Downing Street can’t think about anything else and it can’t think straight: it is seeing conspiracies in the shadows everywhere’.

And Isabel Hardman says David Cameron looks like a Prime Minister in need of a break:

‘I think David Cameron’s response to the question of whether he had taken his eye off the ball was really telling and told us that he probably thinks that he has.