Give Up Or Die

Despite the ‘extremely severe’ situation in Mariupol, Zelensky has called on the west to provide the country with heavy weapons

Russia has issued a chilling warning to Ukrainian soldiers as it ordered the last defenders of besieged Mariupol to lay down their arms, but Volodymyr Zelensky warned the Kremlin was attempting to kill everyone there.

Moscow gave Ukrainian soldiers an ultimatum to surrender or die by 3 am GMT on Sunday after the Russian Defence Ministry claimed their troops had cleared the urban area of the city, with only a small unit of Ukrainian soldiers remaining in the giant Azovastal steelworks in the southeastern port.

According to the Russian Defence Ministry, only one small unit of Ukrainian fighters remains in the giant Azovstal steelworks in the south-eastern port after Moscow gave Ukrainian forces an ultimatum to surrender or die by 3am GMT on Sunday.

In a statement, the defence ministry said that the Russian Armed Forces offer the militants of nationalist battalions and foreign mercenaries from 6 am (Moscow time) on April 17, 2022, to stop any hostilities and lay down their arms. All who lay down their arms are assured that their lives will be spared.

With the last Ukrainian fighters in Mariupol refusing to surrender and accept Russia’s now expired ultimatum, President Volodymyr Zelensky said the Kremlin was intentionally attempting to kill everyone who was there.

He said Ukraine needs more heavy weapons from the West immediately to have any possibility of saving the port city on the Sea of Azov as Russian airstrikes continue on Mariupol, according to Ukraine’s military.

He said either their partners give Ukraine all of the required heavy weapons, the planes, and without exaggeration immediately, so that they can relieve the pressure of the occupiers on Mariupol and break the blockade, or they do so through negotiations, in which the role of their partners should be decisive.

Were it to fall, it would be the first major city to be taken by Russian forces since the attack started on February 24.

It comes as the Ukrainian MP for Odesa, Oleksiy Goncharenko, told BBC News that the last defenders in Mariupol won’t surrender to Russia.

He said that he talked with them and that he knows that they were going to fight until the end.

Goncharenko referred to the ongoing siege of Mariupol as a real genocide and said it was believed that more than 20,000 people had been destroyed in the port city.

Earlier Mr Zelensky had told Ukrainian reporters that the situation in Mariupol, which had come at a horrific cost to trapped and starved civilians, could scuttle attempts to negotiate an end to the war.

A Russian Defence Ministry spokesman said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had been forced out of most of the city and remained only in the Azovstal steel mill, where tunnels allow the defenders to hide and resist until they run out of ammunition.

But are we to trust anything that’s reported on this war? I’m not suggesting that this war isn’t real, I’m just saying what do we believe when the tabloids report the news to us?

Reporting is never 100 per cent correct. Possibly 80 to 90 per cent accurate, if you’re lucky. You only have to see the images to get a real insight into what’s actually going on out there.

And I’m guessing that it would now be sensible for Ukraine to surrender, even if they don’t want to, but it’s not worth it for Zelensky to encourage people to become martyrs. Maybe he thinks they’re worth more dead than alive – for propaganda purposes, of course, but then most dictators are control monsters and that’s how they get into the roles they’re in today, with lies and menacing behaviour towards their populations, but then the Kremlin is planning to take possession of a city that no longer exists because Vladimir Putin has made sure of it.

Did Harry And Meghan Visit The Queen Incognito?

Several police motorcyclists and a four-by-four accompanied the van down Windsor High Street yesterday, possibly as an escort for the couple.

Footage has emerged of a blackened out van and 4×4 departing Windsor Castle on the same day Harry and Meghan slinked in for an incognito visit, sparking speculation they were on board.

The convoy travelled down Windsor High Street preceded by two police motorcyclists, in what could be the couple’s security escort.

The video may spark questions about their security arrangements, given Harry had previously indicated he wouldn’t return to the United Kingdom unless he was given complete police protection.

The Sussexes have been accused of exploiting the Queen for Netflix and making their trip for ‘clear the air talks’ with the Queen and Prince Charles to please the American producers of their forthcoming documentary.

Speaking to a newspaper outlet, Meghan’s acid penned biographer Tom Bower sensationally branded the Sussexes ‘the Royal Family’s worst traducers’ and accused the pair of ‘exploiting an old, unwell woman to boost their credibility and coffers’.

Netflix is expected to send a camera unit to pursue Harry and Meghan when they meet the Ukraine team at the Invictus Games for injured military veterans in The Netherlands for their documentary about the Paralympic-style games, but critics have accused the royal couple of cashing in on the Games by allowing Netflix, with whom they’ve signed a $100 million deal, into private meetings, and royal experts think that the VVIP status given to the pair will allow Netflix to portray the couple in a favourable light, as they deal with the fallout from their bombshell interview with Ophrah last year.

Talking about Harry and Meghan’s meeting with the Queen and Charles, Mr Bower said that he had no doubt it was all done for their Netflix documentary, and that the Queen’s advisors failed to protect her from being exploited by the Royal Family’s worst traducers, while the Sussexes exploited an aged, sick woman to boost their credibility and coffers.

A newspaper outlet has contacted representatives for Harry and Meghan for comment. Buckingham Palace refused to remark on the video.

Other professionals suggested that the surprise face to face engagement with the Queen, who will be 96 years old next Thursday and has undergone a string of health concerns recently, was an olive branch after significant tension between the Sussexes and the royal family.

Ingrid Seward, editor in chief of Majesty Magazine, said the visit would have made the Queen extremely pleased despite the couple’s highly publicised criticism of the royals. In their interview with Ophrah, they accused an unknown senior royal of racism.

I’m sure there will be many people who say that they don’t even know why they have shown their faces and that they’ve got some nerve, but who are we, the common people to judge them and the Royal Family? Well, we are the common people who foot the bill!

However, they must be extremely embarrassed if they’ve arrived back in a blacked-out van.

They said that they wanted their life to be private, how’s that going with a Netflix documentary? I bet their bank account says “very well, thank you.”

Undoubtedly, it was supposed to be a private visit, not so private if the general public now know about it.

The thing is, if they came with big security, it would be wrong. If they came in quietly it would be wrong, so they’re doomed if they do and they’re doomed if they don’t.

But really and truly we don’t know if they were in the blacked-out van because there are numerous unmarked vehicles that visit the royal household on a daily basis, and this is just speculation that it was Harry and Meghan. It could have been the Pope for all we know.

Dianne Feinstein, 88, Says She Won’t Step Down

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, 88, says she won’t resign before her term ends in 2024, despite her democratic colleagues’ concerns that she is mentally unfit to serve.

California Senator Dianne Feinstein said she won’t step down from her position before it concludes in 2024, despite democratic colleagues saying they’re concerned she’s mentally incompetent to serve.

Dianne Feinstein, 88, said she regularly meets with leaders and isn’t isolated after four senators, three of them Democrats, a California Congress member, and three ex-staffers said that her short term memory was declining.

Her short term memory is deteriorating after four senators – three of them Democrats – a California congress member, and three former staffers said she meets with leaders regularly.

She told a newspaper outlet that she sees people. That her attendance is satisfactory. That she puts in the hours and that they represent a huge state and that she was somewhat baffled by all of this.

Dianne Feinstein, one of the longest-serving senators, had long been recognised in Washington for her issue-focused passion and sharp wit, but now people who’ve worked with the California lawmaker for years now say she has difficulty recognising them and repeats the same few talking points.

The senator said no one had brought up these concerns to her directly, and she told a newspaper outlet that the conversation had not happened and the real discussion was whether she’s an adequate representative for 40 million people.

Talk has been floated of convincing her to quit before her present term concludes in 2024.

An employee from another senator’s office has also been cited saying they’ve seen their boss go out of their way to reintroduce themselves to Dianne Feinstein before talking to her.

An unidentified California lawmaker said, referencing a fable about fearing to speak truth to power that they’ve got an Emperor’s New Clothes problem there.

They said they’d worked with her for a long time and long enough to know what she was like just a few years ago, consistently in command, always in charge, on top of the details, basically couldn’t resist a conversation where she was driving some bill or some idea and that all of that is now gone.

The member of Congress described an hours-long discussion in which they had to reintroduce themselves to the veteran senator numerous times and circle back to the same questions without any indication she knew they’d already covered it.

The lawmaker said that she was an intellectual and political power not that long ago, and that’s why their meeting with her was so jarring because now there was no glimmer of that, and that and the other interactions described in the report emerged before the death of Dianne Feinstein’s husband in February of this year.

Of course, all Americans deserve competent representation, so anyone working for the President as well as the President himself should pass a competency test. Let’s face it you have to pass a test to drive a car, so why are Joe Biden, Dianne Feinstein as well as some others smelling of formaldehyde and then feebly attempting to lead?

Shouldn’t it be that once you reach retirement age you should at least have to have a competency test, at least once their session is over?

Of course, everyone is different. I’m not saying that once you retire you suddenly become senile or have to wear a diaper. There are some very spritely retired people, but then there are some that are not so spritely, but even the spritely retired people sometimes have to have a nap in the afternoon and aren’t quite as sharp as they once were, which is totally understandable.

But many of the more senior statesmen are also totally out of touch with things because they’ve been in office too long, and life in Washington DC looks nothing like the rest of the country, and statesmen snoozing during an address is just not a good look at all.

As Costs Rise 7 Percent In March, Inflation Reaches Its Highest Level In 30 Years

The UK also reported uninspiring employment data and slower GDP growth this week.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak is facing more financial pressure after the rate of inflation skyrocketed to a 30 year high.

The Office for National Statistics said that the rate of Consumer Prices Index inflation grew to 7 per cent in March from 6.2 per cent in February.

The rise was higher than the 6.7 per cent that analysts had anticipated and was driven by fuel, restaurant and food costs.

It comes after the United Kingdom also documented uninspiring employment figures and slower GDP growth this week.

Inflation was once more at the highest point since March 1992, when inflation stood at 7.1 per cent.

Labour’s Pat McFadden, the shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said that the cost of living was hitting households hard. Not only were energy prices up, but the Government was again imposing tax rises, and as today’s rising inflation figures showed, prices on everyday items were up too.

He said Labour had a plan to cut energy bills through a one-off windfall tax on oil and gas producer profits. Meanwhile, the Chancellor has raised taxes for working people to their highest levels in 70 years.

The inflation increase doesn’t even take into account the average 54 per cent increase in energy bills that was applied to about 22 million households two weeks ago.

This won’t appear in inflation figures until next month when April’s data is expected to show another leap in inflation and shows the increasing squeeze on ordinary people.

The Bank of England has predicted that inflation could peak at about 8 per cent in April.

ONS chief economist Grant Fitzner said broad-based price rises saw annual inflation increase sharply again in March.

He said that amongst the largest increases were petrol costs, with prices mostly collected before the recent cut in fuel duty, and furniture.

He said that restaurant and hotel prices also increased steeply in March while, after falling a year ago, there were rises across a number of different types of food.

He said the price of goods departing UK factories had continued to increase substantially with metal and transport products both at record highs and food reaching its highest rate for over a decade. Raw material costs also increased, with significant growth in the price of crude oil.

Petrol at 160.2p per litre on average in March and diesel at 170.5 p, were both at record high prices.

When the cost of living crisis starts to bite, it’s not just the impoverished but also the middle classes that will suffer, and the political danger for this government will rise exponentially.

The British public endures a lot, but even they have limitations when they see their living standards eroding while at the same time the state keeps raising taxes on the British working population but gives generous exceptions to the wealthy living in their tax haven called the United Kingdom.

Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are criminals and they should be ousted now because the British people no longer have any faith in them, and don’t believe that this hogwash is about the war in Ukraine. This problem has been two years in the making where supply lines were and are still affected by people not working or not working up to capacity because of COVID restrictions.

Incompetent governments have caused this and what you’re now paying is the true cost of their overreaction to a virus with a better than 99 per cent survival rate.

However, this isn’t a UK centric problem, but a global one, and one which I’d like to believe that those with a few brain cells would have seen coming a mile off, therefore, it shouldn’t come as any real surprise.

Boris Johnson, Rishi Sunak, And Carrie Will Be Fined For Partygate

He also attended a Christmas quiz night at No10 (pictured).

Boris Johnson became the first serving Prime Minister in history to be punished for law-breaking as No 10 confirmed he will be fined by the police for attending an illegal Partygate event.

Boris Johnson, his wife Carrie and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are among a tranche of 30 more fixed penalty notices dished out by Scotland Yard to people who broke lockdown rules.

The PM’s wife, Carrie, and Boris Johnson were fined today for attending illegal lockdown parties at Number 10.

They’ve been sanctioned by Operation Hilman for breaking the law at illegal events that took place while millions of ordinary Britons were showing self-sacrifice and following restrictive COVID rules for the good of the country.

The news will put tremendous pressure on the Prime Minister, who’s encountered calls from opponents and within his own party to resign if sanctioned. Boris has resisted giving a definite answer.

Questions will also be raised over his openness towards MPs. Last year he told the Commons that all guidance was observed completely in No 10. Rishi Sunak, last December, also told MPs he didn’t attend any parties.

The Metropolitan Police didn’t reveal if Boris Johnson was among those to be sanctioned with a £50 penalty. Downing Street originally indicated that he wasn’t.

But a No 10 spokeswoman said that the Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer received notice that the Metropolitan police planned to give them fixed penalty notices and that they had no additional details and that they would update again as soon as they do.

The statement didn’t cite Carrie Johnson, but her spokeswoman later said that in the interest of clarity, Carrie Johnson could confirm that she’d been informed that she would receive a Fixed Penalty Notice, but that she’s not yet received any additional particulars about the nature of the FPN.

It’s not known which event the trio were censured for, but they all attended a party arranged by Carrie Johnson for Boris Johnson’s 56th birthday in June 2020.

The Prime Minister, who’s at his Chequers country retreat, has yet to publicly admit that fines being administered by the police were proof of lawbreaking by senior figures in his Government and Whitehall.

Grieving families said there’s just no way the Prime Minister and the Chancellor can continue in their position after the duo were told they would be fined as part of a police investigation into allegations of lockdown parties held at Downing Street.

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer demanded both the Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak quit, saying that Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak had disregarded the law and continually fibbed to the British public and that they must both quit.

So, it’s out in the open now, Boris Johnson did lie, and he lied to parliament. It’s time for him and Rishi to sling their hook. They both have to go because they have decimated this country of ours, but I also fear that his replacement could be much worse.

Boris Johnson has acted illegally and yet he’s still Prime Minister. What sort of rule of law is that in the United Kingdom then?

This is a reminder that Allegra Stratton, the Prime Minister’s press secretary, was forced to quit for quipping about illegal parties during the lockdown.

Now it’s official, the Prime Minister has lied and violated the law, and we now have a Prime Minister who’s culpable of perpetrating a crime and he must resign. It’s Election time now!

But then, didn’t Tony Blair send men to their death over a false dossier. It’s apple and oranges and let’s face it we have bigger fish to fry, such as Russian aggression in Ukraine in which Boris Johnson is playing a blinder.

A Homeowner Was Ordered To Demolish A Monster Mansion Worth £200,000

Gurwinder Singh is being forced to demolish the large new house he built in Willenhall after only obtaining planning permission for a modest extension

A man has been ordered to destroy his monster mansion by council chiefs after he built it without planning approval.

Gurwinder Singh bulldozed his modest semi-detached house and replaced it with a four-bedroom property which has made his neighbour’s lives hell.

Here is an image of Gurwinder Singh’s property (left) before the building work began.

Walsall Council has slapped Gurwinder Singh with an enforcement notice ordering him to pull the building down following complaints from neighbours in Willenhall, West Midlands.

It’s believed the brand new house would have cost in the region of £200,000 to build and would have been the largest property in the area.

Gurwinder Singh had planning permission for a mediocre extension in the 1960s house but he went one stage further and demolished the entire structure.

Councillors vetoed a retrospective planning application for the new structure and ordered Gurwinder Singh to pull it down after they received 95 complaints from residents.

Committee Chairman Mike Bird said it was an extremely serious situation, and that an extension was approved and what they got was a brand new house to the disadvantage of the adjacent neighbour. He said that Walsall Council was going to put ‘force’ back into enforcement.

He said that he was sick and tired of seeing breaches of planning regulations around the borough because people believe that they can do it, and the committee is now telling them that they can’t do it because they won’t let them and that when they find out, they will prosecute them.

He said that adjoining neighbours have suffered hell. That there’s been a lack of co-operation from day one and that he welcomed the enforcement, and that they’ve got to be shown to make a stand against people who believe they can build anything they like in relation to the planning permission they receive.

Frank Whiteley, Senior planning enforcement officer said ordering a demolition was a last resort, but he added that it would be extremely difficult to change the current structure which would be similar to demolition.

Residents living near the house, which sits on the corner of Sandringham Avenue and Arundel Road, welcomed the decision.

One neighbour, who wished to remain anonymous, said: ‘I think it’s right that he should tear it down. They said why should anyone get away with breaking the rules. That the house was huge and looked like a horrible monster mansion, and that none of the other houses in the area were that big.

This monster of a house was no doubt developed for his extended family who clearly haven’t arrived yet, perhaps fresh off the boat.

Let’s hear it for the council – singh out loud.

However, you could also say the same about the billionaires and their sub-basement extensions.

Sadly some people believe they can get away with anything. The house looks like a pile of rubbish and perhaps it was a good decision to pull it down.

The house is hideous and looks extremely out of place, and this is yet another story of people not following the rules. Generally, if you ask nicely, and in the right way, you can get planning permission for quite a lot.

The house really looked lovely before Mr Singh destroyed it, and I wonder who the builders were? They must have been some rather dodgy builders because clearly, they weren’t following compliant plans from the council.

Sadly people are doing it everywhere, and Mr Singh was apparently another self-entitled fool who believed the law didn’t apply to him.

Madonna’s Bizarre TikTok Video Raises Eyebrows As Fans Become Concerned About Her Unsettling Appearance

It seems she may have been channelling Madonna, who recently revealed an interesting look with a TikTok filter

A TikTok video shared by Madonna before the Grammy Awards on Sunday has become a cause for concern for fans who were upset about her appearance.

Madge is seen in the less than 15-second clip in a thin top with no bra, chains and plaits puckering up and leaning into the camera.

Fan flooded the comments with questions about the 63-year-olds excessively swollen lips and puffy cheekbones which appeared to be the work of a video filter.

Set to music, Madonna appears in a selfie-style clip with a face morphing filter that seemed to comically enhance her features and turned her brown eyes a milky slate grey.

The Material Girl crooner is braless in a thin black T-shirt accessorised with layers of silver and diamond jewellery.

Her blond hair is braided into several plaits and she has small clips studding her platinum locks.

Madonna’s video has already been viewed more than 8 million times on the social media platform but the response hasn’t all been positive.

One follower commented that her appearance left them unsettled while others asked what she had done to herself and asked if she was on anything and that she should get some help and that sentiment was mirrored by a fourth who asked if she was alright.

One who regularly embraces social media, Madonna has often posted bizarre and revealing, sometimes lewd content.

The adverse remarks don’t appear to concern the idol either, and she was back on TikTok on Monday morning using a glowing new filter for a video set to her new remix Frozen, featuring 070 Shake.

She recently starred in a music video for the modern remix of her 1998 classic Frozen.

The remix is primarily handled by rapper and singer 070 Sake as Madonna didn’t seem to contribute any new vocals to the tune.

The latest remix of Frozen isn’t the first time Madonna has surrendered the limelight to a younger artist on the same track.

In March, she stood almost stationary in another Sickick inspired remix of Frozen, this time featuring lyrics from singer Fireboy DML.

The producers initially achieved a hit on TikTok back in December with his trip-hop inspired take on the song, which was feat.

Madonna was an extremely beautiful young woman back in the day, but over the years she’s got older and is starting to look her age, although now, she’s looking more like an alien, which is rather heartbreaking.

Now you can see the incision scars on her eyelids and the needle marks on her bottom lip and it’s not the Madonna we once knew, that girl has long gone, and now it looks like the outside matches the inside now.

Madonna has a tremendous fan base. I just wish she would realise that she’s attractive without all of this silliness. At the moment she just looks scary, but if her plan was to look absolutely nothing like her actual self and more alienesque, then she nailed it.

Madonna is obviously liked all around the world, but these images were funny and you can’t help but laugh at them, and I really do hope that it gave her the attention that she desired.

Madonna was once an electrifying unique beauty who apparently doesn’t remember how gorgeous she was back then, and perhaps she should look at herself in the mirror because if she did, she wouldn’t recognise herself, and this is all extremely sad because there will be people out there wondering if she’s mentally all there.

‘DUMPED BY EMAIL,’ Says Emily Bridges’ Mother

British Cycling has announced it will ban trans cyclists from racing after suspending its policy following the ongoing debate

The mother of Emily Bridges has promised to take suitable measures after British Cycling reported it will ban transgender cyclists from racing following the suspension of its policy on the matter.

In a statement, the body said the existing policy, which permits trans women to compete in female races if their testosterone levels are below five nanomoles per litre for a period of 12 months, is unfair to all women riders and said a full review would take place in the coming weeks.

The statement added that they understood there were problems concerning the extent to which their existing policy properly reflected the Sports Councils’ Equity Group guidance.

The body has also confirmed it will consult women and the transgender and non-binary communities, as they aspire to provide all within their sport with the transparency and understanding they deserve.

Sandy, Bridges’ mother, however, responded soon after the statement was made public, claiming she’d been dumped in her email inbox, and confirmed the family would make a statement of their own in the next 24 hours.

In a reply to another tweet from a private account, she responded that she would take action, the proper action.

British Cycling had originally cleared transgender cyclist Bridges to ride before the Union Cyclist Internationale (UCI) interceded and prohibited the rider from competing in the British National Omnium Championships last Saturday.

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson then joined the transgender controversy on Wednesday when he said that he didn’t believe that biological men should be competing in female sporting events.

Bridges previously received funding of at least £8,000 when she was on British Cycling’s senior academy as a male rider named Zach as recently as 2020.

After beginning hormone therapy last year, she now wants to compete in women’s events but was thwarted last week by the UCI, which has assembled an expert panel to examine her case ahead of a decision next month.

UK Sport however defied Boris Johnson by announcing they would be willing to give public funding to Bridges if she’s cleared to race in women’s events.

UK Sport chief executive Sally Munday said that they would support every or any athlete who a sport or governing body has considered to have prospective potential and is suitable to compete.

She said that with regards to what is said politically, they’ve been transparent in their guidance and that it’s down to sports to determine what the regulations should be.

In recent years numerous trans athletes have started to partake in competitive sports, but it appears that society hasn’t become as progressive as one might think.

There have been many that have applauded this change, but the inclusion of trans athletes in professional competition remains positively contentious with many stressing unfair advantages between trans and cis athletes, and because of this, existing regulations regarding the inclusion of trans athletes are highly challenged and research on the effects of gender-affirming hormones on trans athletes is widely lacking.

The study strives to examine current research on the long term effects of androgens and estrogens on trans athletes and offer insight into the future of trans athletes in professional sports. This was primarily done through a review of Robert et al.’s (2020) study and supplemented with various other contemporary studies.

Robert et al.’s (2020) longitudinal study of 29 trans men and 46 trans women in the US Air Force revealed that while gender-affirming hormones minimised the athletic gap between trans and cis athletes, ergogenic effects during puberty produced inherent advantages that couldn’t be altered by hormone exposure later in life.

Britons Face Tax Hikes… But Not In No 11

Rishi Sunak is scrambling to suppress a row over his billionaire heiress wife’s non-dom status amid claims she could have evaded millions of pounds in UK tax.

Akshata Murthy, whose father is one of India’s wealthiest men, is facing scrutiny after it emerged she’s kept the status despite living in 11 Downing Street with the Chancellor and their children.

It means she was not liable for tax on overseas earnings, including dividends from her father’s company that reportedly came to £11.6 million last year. That sum could have meant £4.4 million to HMRC.

A spokeswoman for Ms Murthy pointed out she is an Indian citizen and stressed she pays UK taxes on UK income. There’s no indication any laws or rules had been violated.

Nevertheless, reforms brought in by the Tory government in 2015 stated that non-dom status was intended to help those from overseas who come to the United Kingdom but don’t plan to remain here permanently.

Shadow business secretary Ed Miliband acknowledged that the arrangements were legal but pointed out the government was making Britons pay more tax after the national insurance hike came in.

He told Sky News that he is the UK Chancellor asking people to pay more taxes, so was it right that his immediate family was sheltering from UK taxes? And that Rishi Sunak and his family should reflect on that.

Mr Miliband also sparked questions by suggesting non-dom status should have been repealed by the last Labour government, although it’s not clear whether that’s the party’s present position.

Boris Johnson blanked questions about Mrs Murthy on a visit to Somerset, saying that as far as they possibly could in politics it was a good thing to steer clear of wives and families in political debate, but in a round of interviews, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said the emphasis on Ms Murthy was totally unjust, repeating similar comments from Mr Sunak last week.

Questioned if she was sheltering herself from tax, Mr Kwarteng said he didn’t believe that was true at all and that sheltering sounded as if you were avoiding things.

He said that he believed that she’d been extremely clear, very transparent and that the Chancellor had been extremely transparent, and that this non-dom status had been part of the UK tax system for more than 200 years.

A spokeswoman for the Chancellor’s wife said Akshata Murthy was a citizen of India, the land of her birth and parents’ home.

Rishi Sunak should be made to resign over this debacle.

His wife lives in Downing Street, is married to a man who decides how much tax we pay, and it’s extremely curious that she can dodge one tax, live in the heart of London, in the heart of Government, but claims she doesn’t for tax.

This tax loophole is only legal based on temporary residence. Does this mean that she’s going to leave Rishi Sunak in the near future? It seems extremely unlikely, thus she should consider becoming a permanent citizen so that she can be taxed accordingly.

In order to be exempt, you can only live in the United Kingdom for a certain amount of time. She has lived here continuously since 2018, and this is what people are upset about because it appears there are two laws, one for the wealthy and one for the poor.

Of course, Rishi Sunak will not resign, nor will the Prime Minister for lying to Parliament. When will the penny drop that our present cabinet isn’t even trying to hide their true colours, whilst they cheerfully tax the little people, whilst dodging paying it themselves?

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