Mr Sunak has moved belongings out of Downing Street.
It has been reported that Rishi Sunak has moved his belongings out of Downing Street amid ongoing backlash.
The Chancellor has come under fire in recent weeks.
This is due to the cost of living crisis and the revelation that his wife, Akshata Murthy, enjoyed non-dom tax status.
Mr Sunak believed that his wife’s tax status had been leaked and has ordered an investigation into the alleged leak.
It was also revealed that Mr Sunak held on to his Green Card as a resident of the United States for more than a year after becoming Chancellor.
Mr Sunak had previously been a frontrunner among voters to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister.
But the backlash has resulted in his popularity plunging.
It has now been reported that Mr Sunak has moved belongings out of Downing Street.
Removal vans were seen taking furniture and personal items from 11 Downing Street and move them to their newly-refurbished, luxury West London pad.
A red velvet armchair, a shelving unit and several bags and boxes were loaded onto two trucks, which arrived at Downing Street’s back gate early on the morning of April 9, 2022.
But according to the Mirror, the move was pre-planned.
It is believed that the family are making the move because their eldest daughter is about to go into her final term of primary school.
The family want to be nearer to her school for the final few months before she goes to boarding school.
Mr Sunak is expected to split his evenings between the Downing Street flat and their Kensington home, but continue to work from Number 11.
In relation to Ms Murthy’s tax status, Labour said the family have potentially saved tens of millions of pounds in taxes.
Shadow Transport Secretary Louise Haigh criticised Rishi Sunak for not being open about his family’s tax status.
She said:
“He has come out on a number of occasions to try and muddy the waters around this and to obfuscate.”
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said the scandal showed that Mr Sunak lived in a “completely different universe in financial terms” from ordinary people left struggling by the cost of living crisis.
Friends of Rishi Sunak say the Chancellor considered resigning from the Cabinet but Jacob Rees-Mogg came to his defence, saying:
“British politics would be the loser if this row put off people of Rishi’s calibre from getting involved in our public life.”
A friend said: “He feels very bad for the way that Akshata has been impacted because of his career.
“In the end, they decided to do the U-turn, but it was a close-run thing, and if this carries on he might still decide that is it not worth the stress.”
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