From The Past
Quote of the Day
"If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise."
Theresa May
Status Anxiety
Could the scoop about Rishi Sunak's wife's non-dom status gone to a more fitting publication than the Independent
The paper was acquired in 2010 by Evgeny Lebedev, the then 29-year-old Russian-born son of former spy Alexander. Eight years ago, after the paper began a series of tax-avoidance stories, the Eye asked whether Lebedev claimed the non-dom status that would enable him to avoid tax on overseas income. Evgeny modestly declined to say, his spokesman claiming there was no public interest in the matter (Eye 1367).
Since his 2020 peerage, Lord Lebedev of Hampton and Siberia will be ineligible for non-dom benefits (under legislation passed at the end of the last Labour government). But perhaps now he would care to admit whether he ever did claim it? While no longer a non-dom, Lord Lebedev remains a non-responder on the subject.
Private Eye 1571 - April 15th 2022
