Labour has accepted hundreds of thousands of pounds from a giant accountancy firm which the party's own MPs have accused  of promoting tax avoidance schemes on an 'industrial scale'. PricewaterhouseCoopers donated £386,605 to Ed Miliband's party last year, new figures published by the electoral commission revealed this morning. The revelation is a major embarrassment for Mr Miliband after he spent last week attacking David Cameron for turning a blind-eye to tax avoidance. Ed Miliband's Labour Party accepted £386,605 in donations from the accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers last year Margaret Hodge, the Labour chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has previously criticised the party for accepting donations from the accountancy firm.
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PricewaterhouseCoopers donated £386,605 to Ed Miliband's party last year
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Labour MP Margaret Hodge accused the firm of promoting tax avoidance
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Public Accounts Committee chair said donations from firm 'inappropriate'
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Mr Miliband accused the Tories of turning a blind-eye to tax avoidance
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He said Mr Cameron was a 'dodgy PM surrounded by dodgy donors'
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