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...The UK’s opposition Labour party and the Scottish National party have called on Rishi Sunak to sack the Conservative party’s chair after the prime minister ordered an ethics inquiry into his tax affairs....
...Opposition parties had demanded a full investigation by Sunak’s ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus....
...The investigation by ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus was launched by Sunak last week, after it was revealed that Zahawi made a settlement of around £5mn to HM Revenue & Customs....
...Sunak has tasked Sir Laurie Magnus, his independent ethics adviser, to investigate Zahawi’s tax affairs....
...Downing Street said Sunak hoped that Sir Laurie Magnus, the prime minister’s independent ethics adviser, could conclude his report into the affair “as swiftly as possible”....
...Sunak has now asked his ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, to “get to the bottom” of Zahawi’s tax affairs....
...The report from Sir Laurie Magnus, ethics adviser, found several breaches of the ministerial code between 2021 and 2022, forcing the prime minister to sack the MP whom he had defended in parliament less...
...Ultimately Truss went of her own accord, and I was right to predict that before doing so she would remove some of her aides (suspending her communications director Jason Stein), sack her chief secretary...
...So Rishi Sunak’s been accused of being too weak to immediately sack Nadhim Zahawi, the Conservative party chairman, over his £5mn settlements with the taxman....
...The ever-brilliant Pip Torrens is the gruff editor who summarily sacks Charmian (Sarah Greene), the hack who’s just cost the paper £1.5m in damages and costs....
...The mood is altogether jollier — jolly, in fact, as a bottomless sack of Haribo....
...Laurie Kynaston is mercurial and moving as Nicolas, by turns truculent, charming, angry and childlike....
...Brian Sack, the New York Fed’s markets group chief, says this worrying development “was keeping mortgage rates higher than they otherwise would have been”. The programme is helping, but not much....
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