I agree, it’s not that she’s a woman but that she’s the chancellors wife. It’s him under fire more than anything. Taxing the British people into poverty while not applying the same moral courtesy to his own personal dealings. It’s disgusting.
Yes, this.
Nobody is criticising 'Akshata Murty' - everybody is criticising 'Chancellor Rishi Sunak's wife'. I mean, he's rich enough himself to not have the faintest idea of what life is like for ordinary people (imagine being in charge of the nation's money and not even knowing how to make a simple payment with a debit card); but her non-dom basis tips it over the edge.
As well as being his wife, you would also expect her - as a long-time resident of the UK - to be subject to her husband's national financial policies, the same as all of the rest of us are.
At the moment, it's like the kid in the class whose parent is the teacher (back when it was allowed), who just so happens to be perpetually head girl/boy, keep winning every one of the class prizes, consistently getting the top marks (even for mediocre work) and never being told off - but times 1,000.
People will judge you for the company you keep and, like it or not, if you're married to a member of the cabinet - or indeed any high-profile public figure - you're expected not to live in such a way as to grossly disregard all the public principles that your spouse adheres to.
It would be the same if you were married to the Archbishop of Canterbury and you ran a swingers' sex dungeon; or even if you were the spouse of Frankie Boyle and you single-handedly resurrected Mary Whitehouse's old organisation to campaign against swearing and offensive content on TV. Except that neither of those two examples have a direct, unavoidable bearing on our daily lives - unlike Rishi Sunak.