Is Zahawi getting his own back?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Natasha Feroze speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Canacore Genuity Wealth Management. |
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| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the spectators' daily politics podcast. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm Natasha Froze, and I'm joined by Katie Balls and Fraser Nelson. |
| 0:25.4 | Today, Rishi Soonak wanted to wipe the state clean and start on a new track |
| 0:30.1 | presenting a new healthcare plan and visiting an A&E department in the north. |
| 0:35.6 | But the problem with Nadim Sahawi hasn't quite gone away yet. |
| 0:40.3 | Fraser, is Sahawi getting his own back? |
| 0:43.2 | Well, the front page of a time today says that he intends to come up with his own response |
| 0:48.0 | to the investigation released by Number 10 yesterday. |
| 0:51.7 | And effectively, it's difficult to tell because he hasn't gone on the record. |
| 0:55.5 | But the time story suggests that he believes that he did act in keeping with the rules. |
| 1:02.8 | Fundamentally, it comes down to whether he told Tom Scholar |
| 1:07.2 | then permanent secretary of the Treasury about the fact that he's being investigated |
| 1:12.3 | by HMRC and the fact that he'd paid a penalty. |
| 1:15.8 | Now, if you were to, it's all relatively complicated, |
| 1:18.5 | but it can be summarised down to a simple point and could be currently from wrong here. |
| 1:22.8 | But the gist of what we hear from Number 10 was that Rishi Soonak, the Prime Minister, |
| 1:27.4 | did not know about the penalty that he paid to HMRC. |
| 1:30.8 | If you pay a penalty, that suggests that you did something wrong, |
| 1:34.6 | and therefore you probably shouldn't be in cabinet. |
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