UK PM Cameron under pressure over Google tax deal

Prime Minister David Cameron told Londoners on Tuesday evening that they would become Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s “lab rats” if Labour’s candidate Sadiq Khan became Mayor of London.

She said there should be “much more statesmanship like language on the need to build a cross party consensus on such a sensitive issue”.

The Prime Minister said Labour’s candidate for City Hall was “Mr Corbyn’s man” and cautioned voters of the impact a victory for Mr Khan would have on London’s economy.

Mr Cameron, speaking during Prime Minister’s Questions, described as “laughable” the idea Mr Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell would “stand up to anyone” in demanding tax payments from big internet firms.

However, Lisa Doyle, head of advocacy at the U.K.’s Refugee Council, said Cameron’s remarks were “flippant” and said the prime minister “should be showing political leadership and work with other European countries to ensure that people can live in safety and dignity”.

He also criticised Mr Corbyn when the Labour leader opted to remain silent at a service to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.

Instead, he said that Mr Corbyn’s “unelectable extremism” should be “challenged in the constituencies, in the parliamentary party and on the floor of the Commons”.

“Everybody must take responsibility for the remarks he or she makes in this House and it is very clear that you would not have used that term”.

Corbyn said workers filling in their tax returns “do not get the option of 25 meetings with 17 ministers to decide what their rate of tax is”.

The Tooting MP, who nominated Mr Corbyn for the Labour leadership, has since added that he is “his own man” and would have his “own mandate” if he was elected.

Mr Corbyn this week described the conditions in refugee camps in northern France as “disgraceful” after visiting Dunkirk. “If anybody says that they are being silly and playing cheap politics”.

“They said they could all come to Britain”, he said.

“Those are the people to blame for Google not paying their taxes, we’re the ones who got them to pay”, Cameron said.

“Let me tell you what we have done – we have changed the tax laws so many times that we raised an extra £100 billion from business in the last parliament”.

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey told the same programme: “We always talk about language, people will have their views”.

David Cameron has sneered at thousands of desperate refugees stranded in Calais camps by dismissing them as “a bunch of migrants” – on Holocaust Memorial Day.

British International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the government was considering admitting 3,000 children to the United Kingdom, which would be on top of the 20,000 already planned to be allowed in.