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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shops, the Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday round on.

This morning was always going to be tough for whichever minister was landed with the media round.

The Foreign Secretary James cleverly found himself forced to address two highly inconvenient issues of integrity.

Firstly, Laura Cunesburg raised the issue of the Conservative party chairman that seems a harry

who has reached a settlement with HMRC over his tax affairs, which will see him paying nearly five million pounds to the extreca.

You've said you don't know if he paid a penalty.

I'll ask you another question. Did he sort out this dispute while he was the chancellor and therefore the boss of the taxman?

Laura, as I said, I don't know any more detail about this than what was in Nadeem's statement.

But as I say, this was something which has been described as careless rather than intentional

and the tax requirement that he was due to pay has now been fully paid.

As we should again point out to our viewers, the word careless in this context doesn't mean,

oh, whoops, I lost my tax return down the back of the sofa.

That is a technical term used by the taxman to say that something went wrong.

I've got another question for you.

You say you haven't asked for any more detail.

You don't know any more detail, but did the Prime Minister know about this before he gave Nadeem's a harry a job in his government?

Nadeem was a senior member of Cabinet.

When you join Cabinet, the Cabinet office ensures that you go through a due diligence process,

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