BBC News 29 January 2023
- PM Rishi Sunak dismisses Conservative Party chair Nadhim Zahawi following weeks of revelations about his tax affairs
- The prime minister says it is "clear that there has been a serious breach of the Ministerial Code"
- Rishi Sunak ordered an investigation after it emerged Zahawi paid a penalty to HMRC while he was chancellor, over previously unpaid tax
- The investigation, led by independent ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus, found that Zahawi failed to meet the requirements of the Ministerial Code
- Specifically, the investigation found that Zahawi failed to declare that HMRC were investigating his taxes as a conflict of interest when he became chancellor
- Zahawi also failed to declare that he paid a penalty to HMRC when he was appointed to Liz Truss and then Rishi Sunak's cabinet, the investigation found
- In Zahawi's letter responding to his sacking, he told Sunak to expect his "full support" from the back benches
