A British citizen who has established a permanent home abroad may reside for a time in Britain and be taxed as non-domiciled.
[3] The issue of non-doms came to public attention in 2010, and led to the passage of Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010, which provided, among other things, that a person not domiciled in the UK could not serve in the House of Lords.
[4] Prominent non-doms include: Those who resigned from the House of Lords over the issue include Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri,[4] Baroness Lydia Dunn,[4] Norman Foster,[9] Lord Laidlaw[6][15] and Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green.
After some publicity and political pressure, in 2010 he gave up his non-dom status in order to stay in the House of Lords.
However, in 2015 he retired as a working peer, which the Financial Times pointed out would allow him to "revive his non-domiciled tax status".