For a man who watched with distrust and considerable disapproval when the personal and the political merged into a crisis for Boris Johnson, past the week was hard one for Rishi Sunak and his team.
When news broken on On Wednesday evening his wife, Akshata Murthy, daughter of billionaire, did not live in Britannia for tax purposes, chancellor faced choice: protect your family or put your political career first making her pay taxes in Britannia on its foreign investment.
“I want to protect my wife and I think her privacy matters,” Sunak told his team. They knew something had to give as pressure and public criticism mounted, Sunak “dug in”, rejection
