Independent: The Attorney General was ill in bed when British customs investigators turned up demanding urgent legal advice on a tax matter. But the matter wouldn’t wait and they refused to go away.
Without the Government’s senior law officer’s immediate legal opinion, they warned, Britain faced being scammed out of £2bn.
Baroness Scotland was roused from her sickbed and confirmed that the trade minister, Stephen Timms, had the power to zero-rate VAT. Within 48 hours, investigators had blocked a loophole…

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