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Coffee House Shots

Will Tory sleaze hurt Sunak?

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

News, Daily News, Politics

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Having just recovered from his own seatbelt fine saga, Rishi Sunak spent the weekend fighting two more Tory sleaze scandals. First over the ongoing investigation into Nadhim Zahawi's taxes and the second linked to the BBC chairman Richard Sharp's £800,000 loan guarantee. Both stories link back to Boris Johnson's time as Prime Minister, but how much damage could this do to Rishi Sunak?

Natasha Feroze speaks to Katy Balls and Fraser Nelson. 

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0:00.0

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0:16.7

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots,

0:18.4

the spectators' daily politics podcast.

0:20.7

I'm Natasha Froze and I'm joined by Katie Bors and Fraser Nelson.

0:25.0

Well over the weekend, Rishi Sunak was fighting a number of

0:28.3

Tory Sleeze-related fires.

0:31.2

The first one has been over this ongoing issue with the Deem Sahawi.

0:35.8

Just this morning, Rishi Sunak is announced

0:37.9

as his independent advisor is going to deal with the situation.

0:41.6

Katie, what's been happening?

0:43.3

So this story has been bubbling away for some time.

0:46.0

I think it stepped up again last week when there were reports

0:49.2

that Deem Sahawi had ultimately paid a multimillion pound settlement

0:54.9

for HMRC as part of an agreement stemming back to an investigation

0:59.2

launched last year into his tax affairs.

1:02.4

This all relates to whether he should have paid capital gains tax

1:05.3

and relating to ultimately shares in UGARV,

1:09.4

offshore account, and ultimately HMRC have found that he did need to.

1:14.6

Over the weekend, the Tory chairman put out a statement saying

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