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Business of the House

There is, of course, absolutely no comparison. As I understand it, Lord Ashcroft was a British citizen, who—I will be corrected if I am wrong—left the country for tax purposes, whereas Lord Paul is an industrialist from India who has genuinely global financial interests, who has never made any dissemblance about his tax status and who never gave any assurances. The point about Lord Ashcroft is that he gave assurances in order to get into the House of Lords and then breached those assurances.