Sunak Cleared By Inquiry Over Wife's Non-Dom Status

The chancellor was 'assiduous in meeting his obligations and in engaging with this investigation', said the PM's adviser

- Andrew Woodcock

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has been cleared by Boris Johnson's ethics adviser of breaching ministerial rules over his wife's non-dom status and the green card granting him residency in the US.

The prime minister's independent adviser Christopher Geidt said Mr Sunak had declared his interests correctly and had been "assiduous in meeting his obligations and in engaging with this investigation". Mr Johnson asked Lord Geidt to conduct an inquiry following revelations in The Independent about the arrangements which meant his billionaire wife Akshata Murty paid no UK tax on her earnings abroad.

The arrangement, which is likely to have saved Ms Murty many millions of pounds, sparked outrage, coming at a time when her husband was raising the tax burden to its highest point since the 1940s as a share of national income. Ms Murty later announced she was giving up her non-dom status and Labour has since announced plans to abolish it altogether.