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Tory MP accepts donation from banker who used same tax avoidance scheme as Jimmy Carr

With the Tories currently getting flak for holding a ball for the party’s super rich donors in the same week queries were raised about their tax habits, Ken Clarke appeared on the Sunday Politics to deny any suggestions of wrongdoing. He did, however, say that a ‘more defensible system’ should be put in place with a ‘donation cap’ and state funding so parties do not become overly reliant on rich individuals.

Until that happens it’s business as usual for the Conservatives. According to the latest register of interests, Nicola Blackwood, the Conservative MP for Oxford West and Abingdon, accepted a £10,000 donation from George Robinson.

In 2012 Robinson, a top hedge fund boss, was ordered by a judge to pay back  millions of pounds in tax after Robinson used an offshore scheme to reduce his tax. The hedge fund boss was a director of a company called Romangate.

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