Johnson didn’t have power to change tax rules for Dyson, says former Attorney-General. Was Major Corruption lying AGAIN?
Boris Johnson: he should hang his head in shame. Sadly, he doesn’t have the self-awareness – this shot is just of him checking his notes at a prime ministerial broadcast.
Boris Johnson’s claim that he arranged a tax break for James Dyson was impossible because he doesn’t have the power, according to former Attorney-General (the government’s top lawyer) Dominic Grieve.
Johnson defended himself during Prime Minister’s Questions yesterday (April 21) after evidence emerged that Dyson had contacted him by texting his personal telephone, asking for tax breaks so Dyson staff who had relocated to Singapore after Brexit could return to the UK and build ventilators to tackle Covid-19 without paying tax penalties.
Johnson’s responses are shown in this tweet:
The PM – Dyson texts pic.twitter.com/NEXl1VCIK3
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) April 21, 2021
His responses in PMQs were that he refused to accept criticism for doing everything he could to ensure that the UK had the equipment it needed to fight the Covid crisis.
(This is risible when we remember that successive Conservative governments including Johnson’s had systematically weakened the nation’s ability to respond to a pandemic crisis, including selling PPE to China.)
In the end, Dyson provided no ventilators at all.
On the BBC’s Newsnight, former A-G Dominic Grieve made the legal situation abundantly clear:
..The idea tha the PM can grant assurance that somebody wont be subject to tax
..When tax is entirely a matter for the inland revenue
..I do find quite extraordinary
..Because he's in no position to do that legally at all#Newsnight So Johnson broke the law? pic.twitter.com/PJzZ4TeGZZ
— UK is with EU (@ukiswitheu) April 21, 2021
So either Boris Johnson corruptly and illegally influenced the tax system so this industrialist, who campaigned for Brexit and then scarpered abroad to escape the consequences, could profit from a crisis…
… or everything he can do to secure help for the UK in a crisis is in fact nothing at all.
Major Corruption has shot himself in the foot, it seems.
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I have already replied on this post. My reading was quite clear that Dyson was indeed capable of supplying and spent hundreds of thousand on development but the Tories dumped him. Please check this.
I might. It would reflect doubly badly on Johnson if true.
According to the BBC
“On 9 April, Mr Sunak confirmed to the Treasury Select Committee that the tax status of people who came to the country for Covid-related projects would not be affected.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56819137
So did Bozo corruptly influence tax for another person or did he lie and do nothing?
We still don’t know the answer but whichever way it shows the rampant corruption at the heart of all Tory governments. Every modern Tory government eventually collapses through corruption so why do idiots vote for them?
Do they honestly think it’s ever going to benefit them or just short term memories?