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Why the non-dom scandal shows Rishi Sunak is bad at politics

The Chancellor’s decisions over the past week have exposed his poor political judgement.

As Rishi Sunak comes under investigation by the government’s standards watchdog, Ailbhe Rea and Anoosh Chakelian discuss the fallout from the revelations about the Chancellor and the tax affairs of his wife, Akshata Murty, and why it shows he is still naïve as a politician.

Then in You Ask Us, they answer a listener’s question about how Labour should respond to the story.

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