Labour Accuses Tories of Depriving Public Services of Billions by Maintaining Tax Breaks for Wealthy Non-Doms
• Labour accuses Tories of depriving hospitals and public services of £18bn by rejecting calls to scrap tax breaks for “non-doms” over last 9 years
• Chancellor Sunak considering abolishing loophole for wealthy foreigners in desperate bid to find money for tax cuts to woo voters
• Labour analysis shows schools and hospitals could have benefited from billions if loophole abolished in 2015, when party first pledged to scrap it
• Shadow health secretary Streeting says Sunak “wedded” to non-dom status too long while NHS struggled
• Hunt faces pressure to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP in Budget, but expected to resist due to lack of fiscal headroom