Lord Blencathra, the former Tory home office minister David Maclean, who was ennobled in 2011, told the government of the Cayman Islands last year that the prime minister’s bid to increase transparency at offshore tax havens was an attempt to distract the G8 and EU. [See iNews Cayman story published April 16 2015 “Ex Cayman Islands lobbyist Lord Blencathra makes headlines in UK’s The Guardian” at: http://www.ieyenews.com/wordpress/ex-cayman-islands-lobbyist-lord-blencathra-makes-headlines-in-uks-the-guardian/]

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