Permanent Resident?

Boris Johnson is no longer an American citizen, so, like Michael Gove and others, he has lied on his United States visa application in relation to drugs. And now, Rishi Sunak turns out to have held a green card while Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Keir Starmer has been elected to Parliament three times. On every occasion, his party has had a manifesto commitment to abolish non-domicile tax status, without which every other country apart from Ireland manages to get by. But like public ownership of the energy supply, he has dropped it just in time.

There is talk of bringing back David Miliband in a retiring Labour MP's seat. If Miliband is remembered at all in Britain, then it is as a joke, with his banana. But he would now keep an apartment in New York. Since non-domicile status has nothing to do with either nationality or residency, he would be a non-dom MP. With a green card.

The Miliband Test is like the Hitchens Test. Which brother you prefer, or think of first, or have even much heard of, proves whether you are culturally British or the kind of person that says "noocular" in a tiresome mid-Atlantic accent. If Ed and Peter, the former. If David and Christopher, the latter.