"If new tax law comes, I won’t give money"

Not Lord Ashton, in which case this would be the banner headline on the BBC, but Lord Swaraj Paul as reported by Thainidian News.

"the 78-year-old Punjabi, who was made Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords by Prime Minister Gordon Brown last year, issued a stark warning ahead of a debate in parliament Monday over a bill that would stop political funding from so-called ‘non-doms’.

“This is a strange bill before parliament, but I will follow the law. If the law comes in, I won’t give money,” Paul said in comments published in The Observer newspaper Sunday.

With the bill having been promised government support by Justice Secretary Jack Straw, Paul’s opposition was echoed by another well-known Labour backer, Sir Ghulam Noon.

Noon, known as the Curry King of Britain for his vast frozen food and catering empire, said: “It is very surprising the government is introducing a law like this at a time when they are in dire need of money to win an election,” adding he too would stop giving money to Labour if the bill goes through parliament Monday."

Two Labour non-doms that is no story.