Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty enjoy wealth beyond the dreams of most.
One of the reasons they are so wealthy is that Ms Murty benefits from being non-domiciled for tax purposes.
The Tories argue that it is unfair to question the tax affairs of a political spouse.
This is the weakest of all defences.
The ministerial code specifically requires anyone serving in government to list anything which might give rise to a conflict of interest, including their partner’s financial affairs.
So it is a matter of interest that the wife of the man who decides how much tax we pay uses an obscure mechanism to cut her tax bill.
It also matter of interest that Ms Murty has shares in a company which has benefited from a string of lucrative public sector contracts.
And it is a matter of interest that while the Chancellor is raising taxes on the rest of us he allows a scheme which permits the super-rich to pay less in tax.
Nobody resents people who work hard and play by the rules becoming wealthy.
What they resent is when there is one set of rules for the few and another for everyone else.
Home hell
More than four million Ukrainians have now been forced to flee their homes.
In response, tens of thousands of Britons have signed up the Homes for Ukraine scheme.
They stood ready to help – but the British Government did the exact opposite.
The Home Office has proved to be both incompetent and uncaring.
Not only has it introduced a visa scheme almost impossible to navigate, it has failed to provide the manpower to process applications.
Fewer than 5,000 visas have been granted.
We have failed the innocent victims of war.
Help the aged
A new anti-ageing cure could make people look 30 years younger.
Now scientists just need to develop a magic formula for turning back the price of a night out by three decades.
