I can't be bothered explaining how inaccurate the reporting has been on this, because it's largely been garbage and I've been ranting a lot about it since the news broke.
But the short story is, Rish's wife doesn't appear to have done anything wrong, and it's largely irrelevant. Someone has fed this to the press to stir up outrage, knowing full well that that the average layperson doesn't understand tax.
What is relevant, and this is what people should really get angry about, is not that Rishi has a rich wife who minimises her tax exposure, but that he has zero ability to empathise with poor people. You can be rich and do his job - either independently rich or through marriage - but you have to empathise with people who have different circumstances to your own.
He is incapable of that, and that is why the man is a failure. Not because of how much tax his wife does or doesn't pay. Because he makes up rules based on his very limited understanding of the world.
I think I'd quite like to make it mandatory for anyone taking up the Chancellor position to live in a council flat in a shitty area for two months, with only access to money equivalent to the minimum benefits available at that point in time, and for those payments to randomly stop during the experience. Supplies included as part of the experience will be equivalent to those you can obtain from the food bank on a bad day, so a bag of Smart Price pasta and a tinned Fray Bentos pie. I'd also like the heating to be cut off half way through.
I'm not saying everyone claiming benefits has a miserable existence, but I'd like whoever is Chancellor to have to think about what life is like for people who do get the short end of the straw. If they lack the imagination for it, let's simulate it for them briefly. I feel like they'd make better decisions for it.