Geoffrey Cox, the Attorney-General under BoJo’s predecessor Theresa May, spent most of the last lockdown phoning in his proxy votes to parliament from the British Virgin Islands (BVI), a notorious tax haven. Cox, a sitting MP, was being paid a huge sum by allegedly corrupt BVI government officials to ward-off the UK’s investigation into the island’s possibly illegal recourse to tax-dodging loopholes. Records show that Cox skipped at least 12 parliamentary votes on days when he was doing paid work in the BVI. More
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