Rishi Sunak’s first 100 days — Raab, Zahawi and the ‘anti-tax loons’

Rishi Sunak gets up very early, even at the weekends. In good time, then, to receive a ping on his messages on Sunday, alerting him to the arrival of the emergency report he had commissioned from ethics adviser Sir Laurie Magnus into party chairman Nadhim Zahawi’s tangled tax affairs. Sir Laurie found the ministerial code to have been breached no less than seven times while Zahawi’s tax omission was being investigated by HMRC.

Already accused of being slow-footed in dealing with the Tory party’s omni-crises, Sunak acted fast when it came to Zahawi (PA)