Yesterday I asked for a politician to stand up and be counted on tax justice, and now Ed Miliband has

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I am quoted in the Sunday Mirror today:

Tax expert Richard Murphy said: “By being cheated out of £183 each year the British people are being taken for a ride.

"We need a big politician to stand up to these companies.”

That reflected a blog I wrote yesterday morning. Well, it looks like we've now got one who has stood up to do so. Good for Ed Miliband.

I did have one quibble with the Mirror story though: they used HMRC's estimate of tax avoidance, and not mine. As a result they understated the problem, by some way.


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