now, tax experts tell us there are grounds to investigate companies connected with mr barrowman for fraud. | doug loves fine art, fast cars, i and the better things in life. there s no consequences for him. he s just going to keep doing it again and again. so will doug barrowman now face more scrutiny by hmrc? also tonight. nurses, teachers, civil servants, train drivers, midwives, all in their tens of thousands, strike in northern ireland where, without government at stormont, pay is falling behind the rest of the uk. we ll ask the dup s gregory campbell mp why, with the midnight deal for a powersharing agreement looming tonight, his party is still dead against? and to sinn fein sjohn o dowd is the good friday agreement now under threat? beijing calls taiwan s new president, william lai, a trouble maker and a dangerous separatist . his new de facto ambassador to the uk gives newsnight his first interview. we are working to make sure that china believes the cost is going
CRAIG BROWN: Most people employ PRs to help make them more famous. But Mone and Barrowman are the opposite: after too long in the headlines, they yearn for obscurity.
At the centre of Doug Barrowman s spectacular fall from grace is a PPE firm he set up at the height of the Covid pandemic, with high-profile wife Michelle Mone , a Tory peer.
The multimillionaire husband of Conservative peer and House of Lords member Baroness Michelle Mone, has been linked to a series of tax avoidance companies that may have assisted their clients in submitting misleading claims to HM Revenue and Customs, according to a report in The Guardian and elsewhere.