Categories: Economy

Problems mounting for Rishi Sunak?

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<strong>UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has moved his belongings out of Downing Street, as he desperately clung on to his post, a media report said on Sunday.</strong></p>
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Removal vans were seen lining up to take furniture and personal items from the flat shared by Sunak and wife Akshata Murthy and move them to their newly-refurbished, luxury West London pad, said the Sunday Mirror report.</p>
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A red velvet armchair, a shelving unit and several bags and boxes were loaded onto two trucks, which arrived at Downing Street's back gate on Saturday morning.</p>
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But the Sunday Mirror said the move was planned before Sunak's popularity nosedived this week.</p>
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The family are making the move because their eldest daughter is about to go into her final term of primary school, the report added.</p>
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They want to be nearer to her school for the last few months before she goes to boarding school.</p>
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Previously a shoe-in to replace Boris Johnson as the next Prime Minister, Sunak's fortunes have been on the wane since last month's disastrous Spring Statement failed to provide help for families facing a cost of living crisis.</p>
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This week it was revealed Murthy enjoyed non-dom tax status and Sunak had held on to his Green Card as a 'resident' of the US for more than a year after becoming Chancellor.</p>
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It comes amid calls for partners and spouses of ministers to be banned from being non-doms and avoiding paying tax on money made outside the UK.</p>
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Meanwhile the opposition Labour Party said Sunak and his family potentially saved tens of millions of pounds in taxes through his wife's non-dom status.</p>

IANS

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