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Rishi Sunak’s family has moved out of Downing Street in the wake of the controversy over the tax affairs of his wife, Akshata Murty. Removal vans visited Downing Street, where the family occupies the flat above No 10, to move the Sunaks’ belongings to their home in Kensington. Sunak is expected to spend weekdays in Downing Street, while returning to his family in Kensington at weekends. The move has fuelled speculation that Sunak wanted to remove his family from the spotlight of life in Downing Street following the furore over his wife’s tax status. However, his allies have said the move…

PARIS—French leader Emmanuel Macron and his strongest challenger, Marine Le Pen, qualified on April 10 for a presidential election runoff on April 24, pitting a pro-European economic left-wing liberal against a right-wing nationalist. Ifop pollsters predicted a tight runoff, with 51 percent for Macron and 49 percent for Le Pen. In 2017, he won with 66.1 percent of the votes. Le Pen, who had eaten into the president’s once-commanding 10-point poll lead in recent weeks, said she was the one to protect the weak and unite a nation tired of its elite. With 88 percent of the votes counted for Sunday’s first…

ADIL RAY and Kwasi Kwarteng clashed during Thursday’s Good Morning Britain as the host challenged the MP on why people in the UK are having to deal with the rise in National Insurance when Rishi Sunak’s wife doesn’t have to pay UK tax. Kwasi Kwarteng appeared on Good Morning Britain via video link as he spoke with ITV hosts Kate Garraway and Adil Ray about the rise in energy prices and Rishi Sunak’s wife. Ray and Kwarteng ended up clashing after the MP was put on the spot about why Sunak’s wife, who has a non-domicile status, doesn’t pay UK tax. “Why is it that the people watching…

Emmanuel Macron was last night facing a battle to convince French voters to back him in the first round of the presidential election this weekend. Mr Macron is facing a historic low turnout, with up to a third of voters set to snub the ballot, after barely campaigning in recent weeks in order to focus on Ukraine. But by ignoring the French electorate – he had blamed ‘diary constraints’ for skipping a national TV debate earlier this week – the president has aided the momentum of far-Right firebrand Marine Le Pen. Miss Le Pen has clawed back her initial deficit from…

Experts who advise the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 6 came out in opposition to a strategy of repeated COVID-19 vaccine boosters within a short period of time, during a meeting where FDA officials said they plan on deciding on the future vaccination strategy by June. “I do not believe that booster every eight weeks or even four months is a long-term strategy for prevention,” Dr. Amanda Cohn, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, said during a virtual meeting of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee. “We don’t feel comfortable with multiple boosters every eight weeks,” Dr.…

Emails have been released that appear to show the state of Abu Dhabi facilitating payments to Manchester City, reigniting the controversy that led to the club receiving a ban from European competition that was ultimately overturned at the court of arbitration for sport (Cas). According to documents published by Der Spiegel, City liaised with a government agency in the Gulf State to fulfil payments to the club owed by a private company under the control of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family and City’s owner since 2008. It comes alongside further claims that the Premier League…

The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has defended his wife after revelations that she claims non-domiciled status, meaning she does not legally have to pay tax in the UK on her income earned abroad. The businesswoman Akshata Murty, estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of pounds, is an Indian citizen and is reported to hold a 0.91% stake in Infosys, an IT business founded by her father. Her share is thought to be worth £11.5m a year, meaning she may have avoided up to £20m in UK tax by being non-domiciled in the UK. Murty has said she pays tax overseas. Sunak told the Sun newspaper:…

UK house prices hit a record of £282,753 in March but are likely to ease over the next year as homebuyers face higher interest rates and the cost of living squeeze, Halifax has said. The average cost of a home rose by 1.4% on February, according to Halifax’s monthly property index, and is 11% higher than a year ago, about the largest annual increase since the 2007 financial crisis. The new record is about £28,113 higher than a year ago, not far off the average UK earnings over the same period of £28,860. March was also the ninth consecutive month…

An Israeli study found that a fourth dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doesn’t offer long-lived protection against the Omicron variant of the CCP virus. Using Ministry of Health data on more than 1.2 million people, researchers found that a second booster dose of the BioNTech-Pfizer vaccine offered protection against significant COVID-19 infections for six weeks. But protection against all virus infections started to drop quickly after four weeks and nearly disappeared after eight weeks, according to the study, which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers, however, said that there appears to be some benefit conferred by a second booster, or fourth…

Rishi Sunak’s multi-millionaire wife claims non-domicile status, it has emerged, which allows her to save millions of pounds in tax on dividends collected from her family’s IT business empire. Akshata Murthy, who receives about £11.5m in annual dividends from her stake in the Indian IT services company Infosys, declares non-dom status, a scheme that allows people to avoid tax on foreign earnings. Murthy, the daughter of Infosys’s billionaire founder, owns a 0.93% stake in the tech firm worth approximately £690m. The company’s most recent accounts suggest that Murthy’s stake would have yielded her £11.6m in dividend payments in the last…