AN AMERICAN philanthropist who has donated more than £45million to the arts in Scotland says she would consider moving to Ireland as a result of Brexit.
Carol Grigor has spent the past four decades in Scotland, but is weighing up a full-time move to Dublin due to pending tax changes.
The 73-year-old argues the combination of new tax legislation targeting non-doms and the uncertainty of Brexit itself, leaves Ireland looking "better and better for all the right reasons".
Mrs Grigor said: "The specific aspect of the new UK non-dom legislation which relates to my situation only reflects, I am told, a few thousand UK non-doms.
"I regard it as a parliamentary accident – the result, I suspect, of the new act having been drafted in haste, and more with a blunt instrument than a fine-point pen."
While Ireland seems more attractive to Mrs Grigor, given the current political climate, she has not yet decided whether to leave her home in Perthshire permanently.
She added: "This remains uncertain, especially with Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn and what we all expect to be yet another change of government.
"It is sad to see, and to say, but I sense a pervasive anger and hostility these past few years, both in England and Scotland, which is not enjoyable."
Grigor's husband Murray, who is also Sir Sean Connery's biographer, previously claimed he Brexit would likely force him to move to Ireland, citing his disdain for a perceived rise of "English nationalist nonsense".
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