PM fails to get any other country at Lough Erne to back UK calls for public registries of beneficial ownership of companies David Cameron at G8 summit, at the Lough Erne golf resort in Enniskillen. Photograph: Matt Cardy/AP David Cameron's 10-point plan to tackle global tax evasion has met a hostile reception from campaigners after the prime minister failed to persuade his G8 colleagues to make any fresh binding commitments. The prime minister hailed the Lough Erne declaration, issued at the end of the UK-hosted summit as "real progress" in ensuring tax justice, and said the west's leading industrial countries would be held to account if they failed to act. "These are very strong commitments...
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