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Margaret Hodge

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May 2024

  • Margaret Hodge and Labour candidate Joe Powell on the steps of a grand, black-doored property's steps holding up placards saying 'Kensington Against Dirty Money'

    ‘Sorry, no one is in’: few are at home for Margaret Hodge’s ‘kleptocracy walking tour’

    Campaigning Labour MP knocks on doors of wealthy London homes bought by foreign leaders who are subject to sanctions
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  • Guardian G2<br>Labour MP Margaret Hodge photographed at&nbsp;Portcullis House. Feature on MP retiring.

    Goodbye to all that
    ‘We had money! It was brilliant!’ Margaret Hodge on Labour governments, life as a migrant and quitting as an MP

    After 30 years in parliament, the former minister will stand down at the next election. She talks about her battles with Jeremy Corbyn, her fury at Priti Patel and Suella Braverman, and the awfulness of austerity

April 2024

  • Sir Kier Starmer and Dame Margaret Hodge on 15 February 2023.

    The Guardian view on Labour and the tax gap: a £5bn question for a coterie of insiders

    Editorial: Among the party’s experts on tax avoidance is a former City lawyer who wrote that ‘taxation is legalised extortion’

February 2024

  • Mohamed Amersi

    MP calls for NCA to consider dealings of Tory donor Mohamed Amersi

  • Protesters demanding a Gaza ceasefire in Westminster

    British MPs fearful of violent attacks as tensions over Gaza war increase threats

January 2024

  • HMRC tax letter heading surrounded by UK currency

    HMRC has not charged a single company over tax evasion under landmark legislation

    Powers bestowed by the Criminal Finances Act 2017 are not being used effectively, say critics

December 2023

  • Dame Margaret Hodge

    Cyprus confidential
    Margaret Hodge urges PwC to show it is not using global structure to aid illicit financial flows

    Labour MP makes call after branches’ role highlighted in Cyprus Confidential and other investigations

November 2023

  • Polly Toynbee

    Where do we find the £100bn needed to fix Britain? Margaret Hodge has the answer

    Polly Toynbee
    In the Commons, she ripped into the Tories’ economic mismanagement – and pointed a way forward for Labour, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

September 2023

  • HM Revenue and Customs signage

    HMRC prosecutes just 11 wealthy individuals in the past year

    Critics are demanding more action after charges brought by the service against rich taxpayers fall by two-thirds since 2018

July 2023

  • Mohamed Amersi

    Tory donor accused of using bullying legal threats to suppress a report

    David Davis said Mohamed Amersi ‘silenced’ Margaret Hodge, chair of parliamentary anti-corruption group

March 2023

  • The Palestinian town of Hawara after an attack by Israeli settlers

    Simon Schama urges UK Jews to condemn Israel’s ‘horrifying’ shift to far right

    Historian and TV presenter is among those to speak out as protest grows over settler violence against Palestinians

February 2023

  • Nicola Sturgeon speaks at a news conference at Bute House where she announced she will stand down as first minister.

    ‘It could be your next-door neighbour’: how female MPs cope with misogynistic abuse

    As Nicola Sturgeon quits, online vitriol continues to leave female politicians fearing for their safety

October 2022

  • The front door and sign of Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs

    Tory donor’s name removed from kleptocracy report after ‘meritless’ libel threat

    Russian-Turkmen ex-banker Dmitry Leus denies impropriety as MP says legal costs forced Chatham House to back down

August 2022

  • Smart houses in London

    New register of overseas owners of UK properties ‘riddled with flaws’

    Critics warn of loopholes as UK government tries to stop ‘oligarchs attempting to hide ill-gotten gains’

May 2022

  • Margaret Hodge

    UK’s defences against ‘dirty money’ overrun, say MPs

    UK now ‘jurisdiction of choice for dirty money’, cross-party group says as it launches economic crime manifesto

March 2022

  • ATM buttons of mastercard and visa

    British MPs urge global banks to close Russian offices ‘without delay’

  • BESTPIX - TOPSHOT-FRANCE-UKRAINE-RUSSIA-CONFLICT-SANCTION<br>*** BESTPIX *** TOPSHOT - A picture taken on March 3, 2022 in a shipyard of La Ciotat, near Marseille, southern France, shows a yacht, Amore Vero, owned by a company linked to Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russian energy giant Rosneft. - The French government on March 3 said it had seized in La Ciotat a superyacht owned by a company linked to Igor Sechin, chief executive of Russian energy giant Rosneft and close confidant of the Russian President, as part of the implementation of European Union sanctions against Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT / AFP) (Photo by NICOLAS TUCAT/AFP via Getty Images)

    UK to speed up sanctions on Russian oligarchs by copying allies’ decisions

February 2022

  • A worker gather supplies at the NHS' National Procurement Warehouse at Canderside, Larkhall.

    Firms handed £1.3bn in Covid contracts claimed £1m in furlough grants

    Dozen UK companies given VIP fast-track contracts to supply PPE to NHS paid idled staff at taxpayers’ expense

January 2022

  • The |City of London skyline

    Pressure grows on UK to beef up measures to tackle economic crime

    MPs and experts demand immediate action after shock resignation of minister over £4.3bn Covid loans fraud bill
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