VIDEO: Protests outside Downing Street over David Cameron’s tax affairs
By Press Association
April 9, 2016, 4:23 pm
Demonstrators sit down in protest outside Downing Street (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Chants of “Cameron out” could be heard at the protest, organised after the Prime Minister was accused of misleading the public over his finances.
A simultaneous protest took place outside the Conservative Party’s spring conference in central London.
It follows a torrid week for the embattled Prime Minister, who found himself at the centre of a tax scandal when the Panama Papers were leaked to the world’s media. He was accused of hypocrisy having long campaigned to crack down on offshore havens.
Earlier this week, he admitted to profiting from his shares in Ian Cameron’s Panama-based company Blairmore Holdings Ltd, having sold them a few months before he became PM in 2010.
Due to the nature of the offshore arrangement, however, there was no suggestion the Tory leader had done anything illegal.
