Bold Rishi’s rescue deal taxes the Left

AfTer yet another jaw-droppingly generous handout from our dependable Chancellor rishi Sunak, labour — the party of the workers — could hardly attack him on the substance of his measures to save jobs and prevent people sliding into poverty.

So they decided instead to dredge up tired old canards about his previous career in the City.

opposition MPs pointed reproachfully to Sunak’s earlier association with firms that had made use of companies registered in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands.

Presumably that means labour has no links to any offshore entities? not exactly, m’lud. The party’s eighth-floor office suite in london’s Victoria is owned by a tax-exempt unit trust firm, Welput. And where is this based? Why, the offshore haven of Jersey.

Meanwhile, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, who noisily led the criticism of Sunak, is known to have had a £14,000 pension from Westminster Council.

The cash for this comes from a fund that invested £100million in the Guernsey-based global equity manager longview in 2014. What do they say about glass houses and stones?

Sunak’s bold measures to tackle the economic devastation threatened by the coronavirus has found him allies in unexpected places. left-wing firebrand frances o’Grady, general secretary of the TUC, declared: ‘rishi Sunak has shown real leadership. We’re glad he’s listened to unions and taken vital steps to support working families.’

Any more of this and the unions will switch to the Tories!

SAJID JAVID’S resignation as Chancellor, after he refused to allow no10 to choose his political advisers, was a surprise not just to fellow Tory MPs.

The Saj’s wife, laura, was more shocked than anyone. ‘I confessed what I had done first to silence and then to disbelief,’ he reveals in The Spectator magazine.