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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell called yesterday for plans to close dozens of tax offices to be ditched after a “damning” report was released by Whitehall spending watchdog the National Audit Office (NAO).
He said HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) proposals to replace 170 offices with 13 regional offices, four “specialist” sites and a London-based headquarters were an “emerging disaster.”
HMRC has been forced to rethink the proposal as the scale of disruption involved — including the loss of around 5,000 jobs — had been underestimated, the NAO revealed.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
The plot to build a lavish Dubai-style luxury development where the rich can sun themselves on top of the mass graves of thousands is one of the most bizarre and twisted ideas to come out of the genocide in Gaza, writes ROGER McKENZIE
