Rishi Sunak faces mounting pressure to take decisive action against Nadhim Zahawi, as the focus on the Conservative party chair’s finances started to shift to the prime minister’s own tax situation.
After a bruising prime minister’s questions in which Keir Starmer labelled Sunak “hopelessly weak”, the PM’s press secretary initially refused to say whether Sunak had, like Zahawi, ever paid a tax penalty to HMRC, saying this was “confidential”.
