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Daily Stormer
April 9, 2016
Probably, nothing will happen.
It would be funny if it did though.
David Cameron was in Washington rubbing shoulders with world leaders, sun-tanned and relaxed after a holiday in Lanzarote, when an email revealing what the Guardian knew about his father’s tax affairs dropped on Conservative HQ.
From that moment, the prime minister would have known there was a serious risk of people finding out about the £30,000 of shares he previously owned in Ian Cameron’s offshore investment fund.
It would look terrible to a public already outraged about tax avoidance that a wealthy young Cameron had chosen to buy shares in Blairmore, the fund based in Panama and the Bahamas that never paid a penny of tax in Britain.
This was the point at which Cameron should have made a clean breast of the facts, Labour and some of his own Conservative MPs now say.
It would have saved the prime minister the worst week of his professional life, which has ended with calls for him to resign, a flurry of bets on a leadership challenge this year and undermined public trust in his premiership.
But faced with a choice, Downing Street opted for the tactics that have worked so well for Cameron in previous crises: deflect, dismiss and deny until the story ebbs away.
The spin doctors adopted this approach back in 2012, when Guardian journalists first revealed that Ian Cameron’s wealth had been built offshore. Downing Street then refused to comment, saying it was a private matter for the Cameron family. By remaining tight-lipped, the story ended up disappearing from the headlines within days.
