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In an interview with the Guardian yesterday Keir Starmer accused Rishi Sunak of “rank hypocrisy” on the grounds he is putting up taxes for Britons while his wife has been using non-dom status to reduce her own tax bill, to the benefit of the Sunak household.\nIn his Sky News interview James Heappey, the armed forces minister, said that he did not accept Starmer’s argument.

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