A UK lawmaker has been thrown out of parliament for calling British Prime Minister David Cameron “Dodgy Dave” in reference to his avoidance of questions over his personal finances.
Labour MP Dennis Skinner was referring to recent revelations made in the Panama Papers leak that Cameron had financially benefited from his late father’s offshore investments.
“I asked him (Cameron) a very important question about the windfall he received when he wrote off the mortgage of the premises in Notting Hill, and I said to him he didn't write off the mortgage of the one taxpayers were helping to pay for at Oxford,” said Skinner.
"I didn't receive a proper answer then. Maybe dodgy Dave will answer it now," he added before his microphone was disconnected.
Speaker John Bercow gave Skinner two chances to revoke the jibe, which was made while addressing the House of Commons.
Skinner declined, stating that Cameron “has done more to divide this nation than anybody else…He’s looked after his own pocket. I still refer to him as ‘Dodgy Dave.’ Do what you like!”
Following the remarks he was asked to leave the chamber on the grounds of unparliamentary language, a regulation which states that MPs are not permitted to accuse each other of being dishonorable.
Cameron has been under pressure by the media and the opposition to disclose the details of financial relations between his father, Ian Cameron, and a Panamanian law firm specializing in reducing the tax burdens for the wealthy.
Earlier, Cameron rejected the “deeply hurtful and profoundly untrue” allegations leveled against him and his father over tax evasion while addressing the House of Commons.
The Panama Papers are a leak of 11.5 million files from the database of the world’s fourth biggest offshore law firm, Mossack Fonseca. The records, which were obtained from an anonymous source last week, contain information on 215,000 offshore entities connected to individuals in more than 200 countries and territories.
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