“It critically undermines this government’s response to the scourge of tax avoidance for the chancellor to stand accused of this practice. Every penny avoided in tax by wealthy large corporations is a penny taken from our desperately underfunded public service,” McDonnell said.
The Labour Party has called for Prime Minister Boris Johnson to launch an investigation into potential misconduct by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid during his pre-politics career in finance.