Tory donor confirms non-dom status
Conservative donor Lord Ashcroft has sought to end controversy over his tax status by confirming he is a "non-dom".
The party vice-chairman insisted, however, that paying tax in this country had not, as critics had suggested, been a condition of his being granted a peerage in 2000.
And he said he would become "resident and domiciled" in the UK if the Tories win the general election and make that a condition of sitting in the Lords.
"While I value my privacy, I do not want my affairs to distract from the general election campaign," he said in a statement on his website.
