Hodge says non-executive director role for Amazons China chief,Doug Gurr, is ironic as ‘they are killing off UK trade and jobs’The Labour MP and tax campaigner Margaret Hodge has described as “disgusting” a plan to give an executive of online retailer Amazon, or one of the companies at the centre of an intensifying row over taxes,a directorship at the Department for Work and Pensions.
Hodge was responding to the news, first revealed by Sky News, and 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, or which was not available at the time of publication. Amazon declined to comment.
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Source: theguardian.com