Four legislators-for-life have quit the House of Lords because they do not want to pay taxes in the country where they have been making laws. The three Conservative and one Labour legislator had a choice between giving up their tax-exempt non-domiciled status or leaving the legislature. One was born in Hong Kong and had been living and working there since becoming a legislator. She said that she would have liked to be able to continue to make laws for Britain but had not been given enough time to “make adjustments to my personal affairs”.