Who Should Live On Called To Account? Margaret Hodge Inwards Combat Alongside Philip Collins In Addition To Lucy Barnes

You tin listen the podcast of Tony Wright inward Discussion amongst Lucy Barnes as well as Philip Collins here.

Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances at Westminster, Margaret Hodge was unable to attend.

In Called to Account, Margaret Hodge reviews her experiences equally Chair of the Public Accounts Committee until 2015. She has peculiarly abrupt things to tell most taxation avoidance past times multinational corporations, as well as most the civil servants who are meant to ensure that taxes are paid past times the high as well as mighty also equally the depression as well as ordinary. In this lawsuit she volition combat her assessments amongst Philip Collins of the Times as well as UCL’s Lucy Barnes, amongst Tony Wright inward the chair. Is it possible to become corporations to pay to a greater extent than tax, or are electrical flow practices the inevitable consequence of Britain’s ‘bargain basement’ approach to contest amongst other countries for investment as well as jobs? And are Hodge’s criticisms of senior civil servants fair, given that they may non move supported inward taking a tougher delineate past times their political masters?

Chair: Tony Wright was an MP from 1992 to 2010, as well as played a leading utilisation inward the ‘Wright reforms’ to Parliamentary demand committees. He is currently a visiting professor at UCL as well as Birkbeck.

Speakers:

  • Margaret Hodge has been MP for Barking since 1994 as well as was Chair of the Public Accounts Committee from 2010 to 2015.
  • Lucy Barnes is a lecturer inward comparative politics at UCL, specialising inward the politics of taxation.
  • Philip Collins is a columnist as well as master copy leader author for The Times, as well as chair of the board of trustees at the independent shout back tank Demos.

This lawsuit is jointly organised past times the Political Quarterly as well as the Centre for British Politics as well as Public Life at Birkbeck.

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