Amber Rudd said that her career in business prior to politics was public knowledge but declined to answer questions [Image: Leon Neal/Getty Images].

Andrea Leadsom apparently fiddled her inheritance tax a few years ago, transferring company shares into a trust fund for her children.

So we have three – known – tax avoiders who have played major parts in the Conservative Government in recent years.

And they want us to trust them to make the UK fair? Pull the other one.

Amber Rudd’s business career has come under scrutiny following a Guardian investigation that reveals her involvement with two companies in an offshore tax haven, and another where her co-director was jailed for fraud.

A fresh leak of tax haven data names the home secretary as having been a director of two companies in the Bahamas – a fact she did not refer to earlier this year when defending David Cameron over his father’s investment fund in the same country.

The Guardian has also discovered new details about her previous career in venture capital during the boom and bust 1990s. One enterprise led her to become a co-director of Monticello, a company that was at the centre of a share ramping investigation.

She was also involved in a company prospecting for diamonds in Siberia that was traded on a notoriously unregulated stock exchange.

Rudd said that her career in business prior to politics was public knowledge but declined to answer questions, including whether she had invested in the Bahamas companies or whether either company had paid tax in the UK.

A rising star of the Conservative party, Rudd has provided scant details about her career before she became an MP in 2010.

Source: Leaks reveal Amber Rudd’s involvement in Bahamas offshore firms | Business | The Guardian

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