Tory tax avoider

It must be embarrassing for David Cameron to have to admit that the Tory parliamentary candidate for Richmond, millionaire Zac Goldsmith, is a “non-dom” who does not pay UK taxes like the rest of us.

Goldsmith is regularly presented to the media as the ‘face’ of the new Conservative Party (anyone remember the slogan “Think Green, vote Blue”?). However, in order to maintain his “non-dom” status, Goldsmith must surely be spending a large amount of his time outside the UK. Unless he swims the Channel to leave these shores, presumably he uses such modern conveniences as airplanes.

So let’s get this right – a Tory multi-millionaire is lecturing us about changing our lifestyles to cut down on carbon emissions, then regularly flying into and out of the country simply so he can keep his tax bill down? I detect more than a smidgeon of hypocrisy here.