Rishi Sunak moves belongings out of Downing Street while clinging onto job as Chancellor
dailyrecord.co.ukRishi Sunak has moved his belongings out of Downing Street today after clinging on to his job as Chancellor.Removal vans and household and personal items were pictured outside the flat which Sunak shares with his wife Akshata Murty.The couple are now set to move into a newly-refurbished, luxury pad in Kensington, West London despite recent controversy.
However, the move was planned beforehand as their eldest daughter, Krishna, enters her last term of primary school. The family want to be closer to her school for the last few months before she goes to boarding school, according to the Mirror.
It comes amid the news that Murty enjoyed non-dom tax status and Sunak held onto his US Green Card a year into his appointment.
Labour said that Sunak and his family had potentially saved tens of millions of pounds in taxes through his wife's non-dom status.His wealth has been on the wane since his Spring Statement failed to provide help for families facing a cost of living crisis.Nicola Sturgeon said the scandal showed the family lived in a "completely different universe in financial terms" from ordinary people.
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