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Apr 29, 2015 Source: youtube.com

Youtube description: They had a heated discussion in Brand's kitchen - but it looks like they found common ground.

Russell Brand and Ed Miliband appeared to find common ground on tax avoidance when they met last night at his home.

The trailer for the comedian's much discussed interview with the Labour leader shows them having a heated discussion on multinational companies avoiding tax.

Brand suggested countries by themselves would find it difficult to have a serious influence on global finance.

Brand said: "An average UK worker pays 20% normal tax, right? Amazon pay 0.05% of £4bn in sales."

Ed responded: "Yeah, we've got to deal with that."

Brand, seemed unsure, asking if we as a country had the power to take on the big multinationals.

Ed assured him that we do: "First of all you've got to do it internationally, because these companies are mobile around the world - and secondly you've got to be prepared to act on your own where you can."

"Of course there are ways to deal with it, it doesn't mean that it's easy. And of course people share your outrage, but you've got to have a government that's willing to say "there's something wrong with this and we've got to deal with it."

"You're that government?" asked Brand, enthusiastically pointing into the air.

Miliband replied: "Yeah."

The video is a trailer for a longer interview due to be posted on Brand's YouTube channel tomorrow as part of his online series The Trews.

The Labour leader says he accepted the comedian's invite because the election campaign is 'too boring' and millions of people are switching off.

Despite 'profoundly' disagreeing with the self-styled revolutionary , he went to his east London home because politicians shouldn't only debate people they get on with.

And there are no guarantees he converted Brand to the Labour cause last night, Mr Miliband said.

In January, Brand was dismissed as a "pound-shop Ben Elton" by Labour's Ed Balls. The shadow chancellor issued the withering put-down after the self-styled revolutionary called him a "clicky-wristed snidey c***" during a television quiz show.

After hearing the Labour leader met Russell, the Prime Minister branded Miliband a "joke".

Mr Cameron insisted that the election is "not funny" and that the issues at stake are more important than meeting Brand.

At a campaign stop in Enfield, north London, the PM said: "He (Brand) says don't vote, that's his whole view, don't vote, it would only encourage them or something.

"That's funny, it's funny."But politics and life and elections and jobs and the economy is not a joke."Russell Brand's a joke."Ed Miliband, to hang out with Russell Brand, he's a joke.

"This is not funny, this is about the election, this is about our future, it's about jobs, it's about the economy, it's about the recovery.

"I haven't got time to hang out with Russell Brand.

"This is more important, these are real people, this is what the election is all about."

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