Good morning. It's three minutes after ten and, well, on Friday, of course, we dedicated the first two hours of the program to trying to rank current conservative scandals with Nadinezaharwe making a late surge for the top spot with his extremely opaque tax affairs. They are arguably somewhat less opaque this morning and even more

scandalous, but as is customary these days in the Boris post-Brexit, but particularly post-Borris

Johnson School of British Politics, admit nothing, never explain, never apologise,

except he sort of explained, carelessness. As far as I can tell, and all of this

is open to challenge and contradiction if and when Mr Zaharwe deigns to share with us plebs, the

details of his multi-million pound financial dealings, which were both under scrutiny and settled

with a penalty, either shortly before or while he was actually Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Albeit that he was only Chancellor of the Exchequer for ten minutes, it's more likely that all of this was unfolding.

In the run-up, he sold UGov, made 20 odd million pounds, put it into a family trust, which meant that no tax was due.

The trust was controlled by his family who then made him gifts and loans of this money.

And his defence was that it was actually not his money, but he was giving the

money to his dad because his dad had been such a big help in setting up UGov, which people who've

worked at UGov have, shall we say, challenged or they have different recollections.

The longer he refuses to talk about this, the bigger the risk that speculations may end up reaching places that are actually more egregious than the reality, although frankly I doubt it,

because it seems to me to be career ending, or it should be career ending, when you threaten to sue people for reporting things that subsequently

turn out to be correct. Dan Needle, who spoke to us last week, I think was it a week ago today

or was it last Tuesday, whatever it was, I'm taking the prize for going in first and hardest

on this story because it stank to high heaven. The problem is these days post-Borris Johnson.

You live in a world where a defeated

president of America can launch, essentially launch a coup, an attempted coup on his own country

without losing the support of a single diehard fan. And we have our own sort of poundshot

British version in this country as well. Boris Johnson has so completely corrupted

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