16 FEBRUARY 2008, Page 24

Golden fleece

Sir: Allister Heath’s piece entitled ‘Fleecing non-doms’ (26 January) was excellent. In particular his point that ‘no taxpayer should be treated better than others merely by dint of his or her place of birth’. Mr Darling and Mr Brown as devolved Scotsmen should pay attention to this.

I believe George Osborne had a sneak preview of the October statement and could not resist turning the Chancellor into a magpie. I cannot believe he really meant to attack the non-doms. Surely he knows better than to introduce such a foolish penalty.

Rupert Hambro

London SW1 17/1