Harman told MPs that either Hague or Ashcroft must go because they could not both be right in relation to what they had said about the promises made when Ashcroft received his peerage in 2000. In 2000 Hague suggested that Ashcroft would become a full UK taxpayer when he took his seat in the Lords. But this week Ashcroft revealed that he has been a non-dom for the last 10 years. He said this had been agreed at the time his peerage was awarded.
Lord Ashcroft, a man of virtue - allegedly
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