But Secker’s questioning has raised the issue of what interests Sunak declares on the Ministerial Register, ministers are urged to declare any of their own, and their spouses’ interests, that could be a potential source of a conflict of interest. Later he said it was fine to take shots at him but not fair game to take shots at his wife, both of which are considered reasonable arguments. Sunak said he had no idea and as he had nothing to do with Infosys. Jayne Secker of Sky News dragged his wife’s, Akshata Sunak (née Murthy), interest in her Indian family’s firm Infosys, into a news bulletin suggesting that Infosys were not following UK government advice and was profiting from business operations in Moscow. However his other epithet “son in law of India’s richest Indian” has been a bane this week.
Sunak’s confident commentary on the conflict has been applauded, demonstrating he is more than a bean counter and added weight to the epithet PM Johnson is waiting for.
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The Office for Budget Responsibility says it is too early to know the full impact of the war on the UK’s cost of living and cost of energy, inflation could average 7.4% in 2022. Sunak said that although the UK is proud to stand with Ukraine, it is not cost-free for the UK. In a video vignette on 13th March Sunak called on firms to stop investing in firms that would in any way support the Putin regime, he praised firms already divesting and committed to supporting them, he quoted Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying that “diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily this hideous venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure”. London: Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s introduction to his Spring Statement was a prologue about the situation in Ukraine, the dire conditions for civilians, the bravery of Ukrainians, the gratitude for UK security, the freedom to be dynamic in the face of divisions, the moral responsibility to impose severe costs on Putin’s regime and provide a route to safety for refugees he listed the sanctions coordinated with allies.
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