DWP Post For Amazon Boss Is ‘Disgusting’, Says Margaret Hodge

‘The Labour MP and tax campaigner Margaret Hodge has described as “disgusting” a plan to give an executive of Amazon, one of the companies at the centre of an intensifying row over taxes, a directorship at the Department of Work and Pensions.

Hodge was responding to the news, first revealed by Sky News, that Amazon’s head of Chinese operations, Doug Gurr, is to become a non-executive director of the DWP. The DWP said it would issue a statement, which was not available at the time of publication. Amazon declined to comment.

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Hodge said: “If people are not putting their proper share into the pot, how can government ever justify giving them prestigious positions?”’

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