Why Nadhim Zahawi was sacked

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This morning, the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak fired the Conservative party chairman Nadhim Zahawi over the scandal surrounding his tax affairs. This story has been ongoing for a few weeks now – why now?

Natasha Feroze speaks to Fraser Nelson and Katy Balls.

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0:16.0	Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,
0:17.7	the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast.
0:20.2	I'm Natasha Ferose and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Bulls.
0:25.2	Well, the Tory chairman in Deem Zahawi has just been sacked
0:29.2	by the Prime Minister over the ongoing scandal surrounding his tax affairs.
0:35.6	This is quite rare in politics.
0:36.8	There wasn't a resignation.
0:38.3	Instead, a letter was released by the Prime Minister just this morning
0:42.5	and this has been after weeks of investigation.
0:45.2	Katie, what's changed?
0:48.2	What's changed is the Prime Minister has received this morning
0:51.2	that report into Deem Zahawi's tax affairs.
0:55.9	A report that Rishi Senna only even asked his independent ethics advisor to look into
1:01.2	after it came to light that the Tory party chairman had paid a penalty to HMRC.
1:07.3	The report is pretty damning if you go into its contents.
1:10.9	It is multiple breaches of the ministerial code.
1:14.2	And of course, this tax ride has been going on for some time.
1:18.0	I think that where I think this begins is when Boris Johnson
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