Tapeworm

Rishi Sunak is dissembling when he says that people pointing out that his wife is using tax-avoidance strategies available only to the very rich is an 'unpleasant smear'.

Firstly it's not an unpleasant smear: it is merely true. Saying a thing which is true about someone is not smearing them. Secondly it is not an attack on her at all. If I was as rich as his wife I'd certainly be getting and perhaps taking advice on how to avoid paying taxes: we all like to say we wouldn't but we almost all secretly know that we would.

If non-dom status is legal, then she's allowed to make use of it: that's what 'legal' means. If you want this kind of tax avoidance to be illegal then make it illegal already: don't attack people who make use of it.

No. This isn't about her: it's about him. He's the Chancellor of the Exchequer: the single person in government who is in the best position to exert pressure to make this sort of tax avoidance illegal, if he chose to do so. But he does not choose to do so, because he has a conflict of interest the size of the fucking Moon: he should never, ever, have accepted the position of Chancellor of the Exchequer, and that he did says something very, very bad about him. He should, now, do the only decent thing remaining: resign. It's not as if he needs the money.

Will he resign? Of course he won't: johnsonites don't do the honourable thing because they are not honourable people. They have the morals of the parasites they are: they have the morals of tapeworms.