Lord Ashcroft has given more than £4m to the Tories since 2005 William Hague has insisted Lord Ashcroft stuck to the terms of an agreement he made in 2000 to become a UK resident before getting a peerage.Mr Hague insists he only found out recently the deal had not led to Lord Ashcroft being non-domiciled for tax. But he told the BBC that being a full UK taxpayer was never part of the deal. Mr Hague said leaked documents showed No 10 knew all the details of the deal that was agreed ahead of the Tory donor joining the House of Lords in 2000. [Read more...]