The perverse reality is that the cost of living crisis is being overseen by a chancellor whose wife is richer than the Queen
Politics is in many ways a game of contrasts. Just days after the chancellor Rishi Sunak’s controversial national insurance hike kicked in this month, it emerged that his multimillionaire wife, Akshata Murty, has been using non-domicile status to potentially avoid paying tens of millions of pounds in tax, while Sunak himself had a US green card while he was chancellor of the exchequer. Murty has now said she will pay tax in the UK on her worldwide income after pressure, but the message from the chancellor is clear: tax is very much for ordinary people.
That the Sunak family are said to have sacrificed their trip to their California home this Easter in order to lay low in their Yorkshire mansion (soon to have a swimming pool and tennis court) is hardly better optics. While the chancellor chooses between homes to relax in, the anxious British public are turning off the heating and putting on another jumper.
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