Ken Clarke handed a record £430,000 deal to write his memoirs and spill the beans

George Osborne defended the £130million ‘sweetheart’ deal that HMRC agreed with Google to cover ten years of back taxes earlier this year, which he hailed as a ‘major victory’ despite the sum only accounting for around 3 per cent of the company’s revenue. An official report by MPs criticised the deal as ‘disproportionally small’.