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TV & Radio Culture 29Sajid Javid had non-dom status,
and did not pay tax in the UK for six
years, when he was a banker earn-
ing up to £3 million a year.
The health secretary admitted
last night that between 2000 and
2006, before he began his political
career, he had non-dom status.
Javid said he was entitled to this
because his father was born in
Pakistan. He issued a statement
explaining he also benefited from
an offshore trust while he worked
for Deutsche Bank 20 years ago.
He said: “Prior to returning to
the UK and entering public life,
some of my financial investments
were based in an offshore trust.
While this was an entirely
legitimate arrangement, on
becoming a minister in 2012 I
decided to voluntarily collapse
that trust, repatriate all assets to
the UK and pay 50 per cent income
tax on those assets.
“This approach deliberately
incurred the heaviest possible tax
burden, and offset any accrued
benefits from the previous trust
arrangement, but I believed it was
the right thing to do.”
It is understood that Javid was
not domiciled for tax purposes in
Pakistan. But last night his aides
did not clarify where he was domi-
ciled, explaining he paid tax on the
relevant asset in the relevant juris-
diction, including US taxes on his
US shares. That leaves open the
possibility that some of Javid’s
assets were located in a tax haven,
or that he paid no tax at all on some
of them.
Last week he said there was a
“moral” duty to pay a levy to fund
the NHS, and Rishi Sunak’s wife,
Akshata Murty, who is still non-
domiciled, agreed to pay more tax
in the UK.
Javid said: “I have been domi-
ciled in the UK for tax purposes
throughout my entire public life.Tim Shipman and Harry Yorke
NEWMAN’S
VIEWdecision is likely to fuel a growing
conviction among the chancellor’s
friends that he is prepared to walk
away from politics to protect his
family’s privacy. Aides have admit-
ted he openly considered quitting
because he was sick of the focus on
his wife’s affairs.
Sunak had previously consid-
ered resigning over rows with
Boris Johnson about the funding of
social care. Last night friends
suggested that he did not want to
be prime minister and might walk
away from politics altogether.
An inquiry has been launched to
find who leaked Murty’s tax
details. Sunak’s team believes itBURNT!
DID RISHI SUNAK FLY TOO CLOSE
TO THE SUN?
PAGES 4-Continued on page 7→The girl lay on a metal trolley, her
face turned to the side, eyes closed,
her blonde hair tied back in a pony-
tail. She was dressed in a shiny blue
coat and black trousers. Her feet, in
white trainers, with the laces neatly
done up, stuck out of the sheet that
half-covered her, here at the end of
her life in a bone-cold mortuary in
eastern Ukraine.
She was 12 and had been killed
nine hours earlier by a Russian bal-
listic missile believed to be carrying
cluster munitions that tore through
a crowd of more than a thousand
civilians, most of them older peo-
ple, women and children, at Kra-
matorsk railway station as they
tried to board trains heading west.
They had flocked there fromThe 12-year-old girl among child
victims of railway station massacre
towns and villages around the Don-
bas region of eastern Ukraine, amid
calls from officials to evacuate
before an expected Russian offen-
sive. The trains, they had hoped,
would take them to safety.
Instead, they were slaughtered
where they stood, bags in their
hands, tickets at the ready. Officials
said 52 people were killed, five of
them children, among them the
girl. No one at the hospital knew
where her family was.
“She was alive when she came
in,” said Valentina Sukhonos, a
nurse at the hospital, as she stood
looking down on her. “She came
with a woman, I don’t know if it was
her mother.”
Gently, four volunteers lifted the
girl into a body bag and zipped her
inside it. They carried her to a van
and laid her down with the bodies
of seven others who had also died
at the hospital. They were the third
load of the day. “Putin is a killer,”
one of the volunteers said, his face
chalk-white with shock, gloved
hands smeared with blood.At the railway station on Friday,
an act that Ukrainian officials
decried as Russia’s latest atrocity
was laid bare: on a patch of grass
lay part of a Tochka-U ballistic mis-
sile, about 6ft long, twisted and
broken at one end. On the side,
someone had daubed “For the chil-
dren” in white paint, a perverse
inversion of reality that seemed to
suggest the attack was revenge for
the imagined deaths of children at
Ukrainian hands.
Ukraine’s defence ministry said
the missile had carried cluster sub-
munitions, which are designed to
kill and maim indiscriminately
over a large area and the use of
which has been widely
condemned.
Witnesses I spoke to reported
hearing several explosions all
around them. The lack of a single
big impact site and the fact that
civilians were killed at a number of
different spots around the station
also appears to indicate the use of
cluster munitions.
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Sunak’s wifeescapes No 11
goldfish bowl
Rishi Sunak has moved his family
out of Downing Street after a week
in which the chancellor consid-
ered resigning because of pressure
over his wife’s tax affairs.
Removal vans arrived yesterday
to take away the belongings of his
wife, Akshata Murty, and their two
daughters, Krishna and Anoushka.
They will now stay at their family
home in west London.
Close allies said Sunak was on
the verge of quitting last week
when his wife came under fire for
her “non-domiciled” tax status,
which is likely to have saved her
£20 million.
On Friday she bowed to pres-
sure and said she would pay tax in
the UK on her overseas income,
including on millions of pounds of
dividends she earns annually from
her stake in Infosys, an Indian IT
firm founded by her father.
It is understood that Murty and
her daughters will now stay full-
time at their family home, close to
the primary school where Krishna
is spending her final term. Sunak
will split his time between there
and the Downing Street flat, sleep-
ing “over the shop” when he works
late and returning to his family at
weekends.
There is no modern precedent
for a chancellor or prime minister
to move out of Downing Street
while still in their job. The Sunaks’
Tim Shipman and Harry Yorke
Chancellor moves family out after tax furore
was a Labour-supporting civil ser-
vant dubbed “Red Throat”. A
senior government official said:
“There’s going to be a full Cabinet
Office and HM Treasury investiga-
tion to establish who had this infor-
mation and if anyone has
requested that information.
Divulging the tax status of a private
individual is a criminal offence.”
A poll by Ipsos Mori suggests the
affair has hit the chancellor’s pub-
lic support. More Britons now
think Rishi Sunak is doing a bad job
(37 per cent) than a good job
(30 per cent) as chancellor. Before
the spring statement, 34 per cent
said he was doing a good job and
25 per cent a bad job.
Labour leads the Conservatives
on which party is trusted “to
reduce the cost of living for you
and your family” by 43 per cent to
25 per cent. This 18-point lead is up
from 14 points just after the spring
statement.
Last night Lord Ranger, a Tory
donor and British-Indian, appear-
ed to suggest that the criticism of
Murty was motivated by racism
and jealousy.
He told The Times of India:
“This is jealousy from the British
establishment targeting someone
who is not white. This is not hurt-
ing just Rishi; it is hurting the entire
British-Indian community, as he is
their role model, and all they do is
attack him again and again when
he has worked so hard.”Javid: I was a non-dom for six
years but now pay my full share
Given heightened public interest in
these issues, I want to be open
about my past tax statuses. My
career before politics was in inter-
national finance. For almost two
decades I constantly travelled
around the world for work.”
After a posting in New York,
where he paid US taxes between
1992 and 1996, Javid returned to
the UK “and was tax-resident
here”.
After that, he said: “For some of
those years I was non-domiciled
for tax purposes, but I paid all UK
taxes due on my income and have
always done so.
“In 2006 I moved to Singapore
with my family and was therefore
no longer a UK tax resident. In
2009, upon my return to the UK, I
became tax-resident in the UK
again and also proactively chose to
give up my non-domiciled status
by making the UK my ‘domicile of
choice’.”
Javid briefly served as chancel-
lor between July 2019 and Febru-
ary 2020 and has been tipped for a
return if Johnson reshuffles Sunak
after the local elections.
During the 2019 election cam-
paign, as chancellor, he boasted
the Tories had introduced more
than 100 measures to “tackle
aggressive tax avoidance and eva-
sion” in order to make the tax sys-
tem “simpler — and, most impor-
tantly, fairer”.Head teachers are to be told what
uniform transgender pupils should
wear and whether they can join
single-sex school sports teams.
New government guidance,
which is in the early stages of devel-
opment, is also expected to pro-
vide clarity on the use of facilities
and changing rooms, as well as
wider safeguarding matters.
Officials are understood to be in
discussions with the Equality and
Human Rights Commission
(EHRC) on the guidance, after the
watchdog told the Department for
Education (DfE) it had been inun-
dated with emails from teachers
seeking clarity on how to deal with
trans pupils.
Last week Sajid Javid, the health
secretary, told the NHS to protectsingle-sex hospital wards. He was
speaking after new guidance said
transgender women could legally
be excluded from some women-
only areas. The prime minister
argued that biological males
should not be allowed to compete
in women’s sport and that women
should have dedicated changing
rooms.
It can also be revealed that the
DfE has not yet renewed its annual
subscription to Stonewall, the
LGBT charity, which expired in
February.
Nadhim Zahawi, the education
secretary, is understood to have
asked to withdraw from the lobby
group, following the Department
of Health and Social Care and the
Ministry of Justice, which ended
their links last year.
While Stonewall providesadvice to firms on how to comply
with equality laws and create an
inclusive environment, some in
government have attacked its
approach and training methods.
Stonewall has previously advised
organisations to replace the term
mother with “parent who has
given birth”, to remove gendered
language and to allow those who
identify as a woman to use female
lavatories and changing rooms.
Sources said the new advice,
which is for all schools, will help
clarify what teachers are required
to do under equality laws. They
cited school uniform, lavatories
and sports teams as areas that are
intended to be covered.
One said this was not an attempt
to engage in a “culture war” but to
produce clear advice and end con-
fusion about the Equality Act andthe Gender Recognition Act. The
EHRC issued guidance for schools
in 2014, but has asked the DfE to
publish its own version. TheHarry Yorke and Sian GriffithsContinued on page 2→UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICELOUISE
CALLAGHAN ANKramatorskspraying shrapnel across the con-
course, it took a horrific toll. Thir-
ty-nine people were killed at the
station; another 13 died in hospital.
Ukrainian officials said it was
unclear whether the long-range
missile was fired from inside Rus-
sia or from the so-called Donetsk
People’s Republic, which is run by
pro-Russian separatists.
Stanislav Zagursky, the local
police chief, showed me a photo-
graph, taken moments after the
blast, of a boy in jeans and a blue
coat lying on his back on one of the
green-painted benches dotted
around the station, his feet tucked
up next to him. His head had been
blown off.
“The boy was eight years old,”
Zagursky said, stopping in front of
one of the benches. There was a
small bloodstain on the right side
of the seat. “He died here.”
Zagursky had arrived at the sta-
tion seven minutes after the attack,
and helped take the injured to hos-
pital. Cluster munitions dropped