The Prime Minister’s new tax-raising economic adviser has not paid tax for 17 years because her employers footed the bill, a Telegraph investigation has found. Baroness Shafik, 63, a crossbench peer who was appointed to the Downing Street role by Sir Keir Starmer on Sept 1 ahead of the autumn Budget, has repeatedly called for tax rises. “I am not just a person who wants to raise taxes and share out more. I want everyone to pay their fair share of taxes,” she said in a 2022 Guardian interview in which she also claimed that it was “pernicious” to suggest...