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12 April 2022

“We’d all do it if we could” is no defence of Rishi Sunak’s wife

It's a moot point — barely anyone in the UK can afford the sort of tricksy accountant required to avoid tax.

By James Bloodworth

“We’d all do it if we could.”

That’s a phrase I’ve heard a few times during the past week since it emerged that Rishi Sunak’s wife, the multi-millionaire Akshata Murty, has saved millions of pounds in tax on dividends from her family’s IT business empire. Usually from Conservative apologists for the Chancellor.

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