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British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fired Tory party chief Nadhim Zahawi after an probe into his tax affairs found a serious breach of the ministerial code.
UK PM sacks party chairman after breach
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has fired the chairman of his ruling Conservative Party over a “serious breach” of the ministerial code.
Pressure had been building on Nadhim Zahawi amid allegations he settled a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill while he was in charge of the country’s Treasury.
In a letter to Zahawi on Sunday, Sunak wrote he had been forced to act after promising at the start of his tenure that his government “would have integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level”.
Zahawi, the founder of polling website YouGov, had acknowledged a dispute with tax authorities, but argued his error was “careless and not deliberate”.
