Streeting calls on government to tax ‘non-doms’ to help fund NHS

Shadow secretary of state for health and social care Wes Streeting and secretary of state Steve Barclay clashed for the second time on Tuesday in an opposition day debate tabled by Labour on the NHS workforce.

Mr Streeting tied his desire for further NHS funding to the row over non-domiciled tax status, which Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy has been implicated in.

He said: “If you live in Britain, you should pay your taxes here. The Labour Party is clear where we stand. We need nurses not non-doms. We have a plan. They don’t. We have a record of delivering in government”.

The secretary of state responded: “More than a fifth of the entire population of Wales are waiting for planned care. 60,000 in Wales are waiting over two years so we can see exactly what their plan in government delivers. Indeed, he asked us to remember when they’re last in power, and we still do”.