Labour pledges to act on UK tax exiles

Ed Miliband has challenged the Conservatives to “stop defending the indefensible” and match a Labour pledge to strip wealthy individuals of their “non-dom” tax break status.

But he faced Tory claims that the policy was in “chaos” after it emerged shadow chancellor Ed Balls recently suggested that abolition could cost the country more than it raised as people left the country.

The opposition leader said a Labour government would end abuse of the colonial-era loophole by stripping the right to use it from anyone other than those living in the UK for a “brief” period.