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Global News Podcast

British PM sacks Zahawi for 'serious breach' over tax

Global News Podcast

BBC

Daily News, News

4.38.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Nadhim Zahawi is sacked as Conservative party chairman after an inquiry finds he failed to disclose an investigation into his tax affairs. Also: Israel to speed up gun applications after attacks, and the guitarist Tom Verlaine dies aged 73.

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0:00.0

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deceit and survival and it's available now. Find out more at the end of this

0:15.2

podcast. This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

0:21.0

I'm Charlotte Gallagher and in the early hours of Monday the 30th of

0:26.9

January these are our main stories. The British Prime Minister has sacked the

0:31.8

chairman of his Conservative Party, accusing him of a serious breach of

0:36.0

standards regarding his tax affairs. Officials in the Southern Ukrainian city of

0:40.9

Hassan say Russian shelling has left three people dead. Senior commanders from

0:46.4

the Islamist group Al Shabab are said to be among more than 130 fighters

0:51.5

killed in an attack by government forces in Somalia. Also in this podcast the

0:59.5

desperate search for the missing radioactive waste in the Australian Outback.

1:04.4

It's around receiving 10 x-rays in an hour so it is something it is quite a

1:10.8

large radiation dose. The UK government is in the midst of a crisis yet again.

1:20.1

The senior politician Nadim Zahawi has been sacked as the chairman of his

1:24.8

Conservative Party because of his tax dealings. Mr Zahawi who was once in charge

1:30.0

of Britain's finances admitted paying a penalty to settle a multi-million dollar

1:35.1

tax dispute. Even though the Prime Minister of Rishisunak has now removed

1:39.5

Mr Zahawi from his job, some politicians had accused him of weakness for waiting

1:44.9

this long before sacking him. The Conservative MP Robin Walker defended the

1:50.0

time taken to take concrete action. It's right that something like this needs to

1:54.8

be properly looked into. I think it's right that action needs to be taken if

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