Yesterday, as news filtered out that Rishi Sunak had received a Fixed Penalty Notice along with The Prime Minister and his wife I struggled to contain my laughter at a question I was asked.

I was giving an interview on why I believe Boris Johnson and the Chancellor should resign, when the presenter questioned whether I felt sorry for any of those involved.

Sorry? Aside from their law-breaking, how could I feel sorry for a man raising taxes during a cost-of-living crisis and failing to adequately help those who are most vulnerable and feeling the pinch from increased energy costs? 

I’m not convinced anyone could muster up sympathy for this man.

Remember his only response to a tearful mum telling him on a radio phone in she is working two jobs, struggling to feed her kids and unable to turn on the heating to the point she can see her own breath, was to patronisingly say: ‘you seem to be working your socks off so hats off to you.’

No, I don’t feel sorry for Rishi Sunak, with a current reported net worth of £200million, who seems to be happy with his family finding ways to pay less, while he asks the country to pay more. 

And Sunak still hasn’t come fully clean about the arrangements after it was revealed that his wife has ‘non-dom status’. 

No, that isn’t what you get called when Dominic Cummings has left the building but applies to someone who was born overseas and spends much of their time in the UK while still considering another country to be their permanent residence or ‘domicile.’

An individual has to pay a fee to ensure non-dom status. With the Chancellor’s wife reportedly richer than the Queen and worth a cool £500million, she was previously paying £30,000 annually to be non-domiciled, before relinquishing the status amid political pressure.

To put into context, if you had £10,000 worth of savings, you’d be paying 60p to keep your status. 

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A non-dom status seems odd when the Sunaks’ official residence is on one of the most famous streets in the world at 11 Downing Street. 

Maybe Rishi wasn’t intending on staying too long. 

That would certainly explain him still holding a US Green Card while being a Cabinet Member, meaning the US is your forever home.  

Across the country, people will be hoping Sunak is off to hide in America and is looking at a career away from Westminster.

I know I’d be doing the same if my Spring Statement had gone down like a cup of cold sick, offering precious little practical help whatsoever to those most in need.  

From the brass neck of comparing himself to Will Smith at the Oscars or the stunning lack of political nous in dealing with the fallout from his family’s tax arrangements, it is glaringly obvious Sunak doesn’t have the minerals to provide for the people. 

It’s easy to forget that just two years ago, Sunak was the darling of the pandemic, feted for his furlough scheme. 

Of course, he could have gone much further by freezing rents, bringing sick pay in line with the living wage like much of Europe  and by putting together a meaningful package for the self-employed and the 3million who were excluded from many Covid-19 support schemes. 

Now, he’s the man considered so wealthy and out of touch, he launched an inquiry into the leak of his wife’s tax arrangement before the one into the arrangement itself.  

For every day this chaos continues, energy bills are going up, prices are going up, and this chaotic government isn’t doing enough to help people like my constituents in Bury South paralysed by the cost-of-living crisis. 

Whether it be parties during lockdown when we were all making sacrifices or their apparent ability to recognise exactly what people’s problems are while doing precisely nothing to help them, the Tories’ priorities are all wrong.

This government is rotten to the core and wholesale change is needed.  

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