A Labour-supporting millionaire is asking the general public for donations to fund a tax crackdown on hedge fund managers. Multi-millionaire Labour donor Dale Vince and outspoken lawyer Jolyon Maugham are asking the public for tens of thousands of pounds in donations to fund a legal case against HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Mr Vince, who is founder of UK renewable energy company Ecotricity and a wealth tax lobby known as the Patriotic Millionaires, has teamed up with the Maugham-led Good Law Project to take HMRC to court over the way it taxes private equity profits enjoyed by fund managers. In March, Labour defended receiving around £1.5m in donations from Mr Vince after it was revealed he was a supporter of climate change campaign group, Just Stop Oil. Mr Maugham has come under scrutiny over the last decade for his outspoken views and public statements. On Boxing Day 2019, the lawyer, a prominent anti-Brexit campaigner, claimed on Twitter that he clubbed a fox to death while wearing his wife’s satin kimono and nursing a hangover. The pair are now working with tax lawyer Dan Neidle and argue that the tax authority allows wealthy fund managers to pay less tax by classing...