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Rishi Sunak says he acted ‘decisively’ in sacking Nadhim Zahawi following tax affairs row | Politics News



Rishi Sunak said he acted “decisively” in sacking Nadhim Zahawi as Chairman of the Conservative Party yesterday following a dispute over his tax affairs.

Speaking at Durham Country at the launch of the government’s urgent care plan, prime minister defended her handling of the situation and emphasized her commitment to “integrity” and the need to follow appropriate procedures.

“What I do is follow a process, it’s the right process,” he said.

“Integrity is really important to me – you all want to see that government is run the right way, it’s run with integrity, and to be held accountable when people don’t behave the way they should. should do or if something went wrong, and that’s what we did.”

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Mr Sunak also promised that he would “take whatever steps are necessary to restore integrity back to politics”.

“Things happened before I became prime minister, I can’t do anything about it,” the prime minister said.

“What I think you can hold me accountable is the way I deal with things that come up on my watch.

“And as you’ve seen, you know, when it comes to Nadhim ZahawiI asked the independent consultant to review it immediately, acting immediately on his findings.

“That should give you confidence that these things matter to me and that I will take whatever steps are necessary to restore integrity back to politics and you can trust that the process will work.” effective.”

Yesterday, Zahawi was sacked as Tory party chairman after an ethics investigation into his handling of tax affairs discovered a “serious breach” of the ministerial code.

Mr Sunak has rejected earlier calls from opposition parties to sack Mr Zahawi following reports that he had paid the fine as part of an estimated £4.8m settlement dispute with HMRC .

But after his new ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, concluded an investigation into the matter – who found that Mr Zahawi had “shown insufficient interest in the general principles of the ministerial code”. Mr. Sunak quickly removed the former Tory chairman from his post. .

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