WHILE David Cameron is absolutely correct to castigate Jimmy Carr for the comedian’s participation in the K2 tax avoidance scheme, which allows the super-rich to avoid paying an estimated £4bn a year into our economy, his selective criticism of the scheme’s participants is also morally wrong.

He resolutely refuses to condemn Take That’s Gary Barlow who is accused of avoiding payment of some £26m in exactly the same scheme. And why?

Because Mr Barlow is a diehard Tory who campaigned for Mr Cameron in the 2010 election and was rewarded for his services with an OBE.

It gives a new spin to Mr Barlow’s debut album “Take That and Party” – more like “Take That and Tory Party”.

And remember that Mr Cameron’s father, a creative accountant, made his money advising the rich on tax avoidance and then stashed his wealth safely away from the Inland Revenue in an off-shore bank account, which is what makes Cameron junior’s mock indignation so repugnant.

I wonder what the Tax Payers’ Alliance makes of it all?

Charlie Kay, Bishop Auckland.