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The National (Scotland)
The National (Scotland)
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Hamish Morrison

Chancellor's new top adviser linked to free market ideologues and Ukip

Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has appointed a senior member of the TaxPayers' Alliance to his top team

THE Chancellor has hired a senior member of a right-wing free-market think tank closely linked to the official Vote Leave campaign, The National has learned.

Nadhim Zahawi, who has held the position since the shock resignation of Rishi Sunak which triggered the collapse of Boris Johnson’s government, has appointed Duncan Simpson, a research director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance as a special adviser.

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