By Sophie Huskisson The Tories could have hired 62,000 extra nurses a year if they had scrapped the non-dom tax loophole for super-rich UK residents earlier. Jeremy Hunt is considering scrapping the measure in his Budget on Wednesday despite previously saying doing so was the “wrong thing to do”. Labour, who pledged to abolish the loophole in 2015, has criticised the Conservatives for taking nine years to take action – a delay which it says has cost the NHS £18billion. The party said the cash would have paid the salaries of an extra 62,000 nurses a year, or 36,000 extra doctors a year since 20…