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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has sacked the Conservative party chair and former chancellor Nadhim Zahawi after he was found to have breached the ministerial code by failing to declare the HMRC investigation into his tax affairs.
Sunak's Ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus concluded that Zahawi had made a “serious breach” of the code by not telling officials he was under investigation by the tax body when he was appointed chancellor by Boris Johnson.
Earlier this month, it was revealed that Zahawi had agreed to pay an estimated £5m in a settlement to HMRC, which included a penalty as part of the settlement.
According to The Times, Zahawi is furious about his sacking and is considering issuing a formal response to the report by Sir Magnus.
In a letter responding to his sacking, Zahawi did not apologise or explicitly mention the findings of the ethics inquiry into his tax affairs, and suggested that he planned to stay on as an MP “in the coming years”, despite calls to step down.
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