Rishi Sunak popularity with the public has slumped, a new polling has found as he tries to draw a line under the Nadhim Zahawi tax scandal and accusations his government is “drowning in sleaze”.
The prime minister insisted on Monday that he had acted “pretty decisively” by sacking the Tory chairman for breaching the ministerial code over his tax affairs, as he vowed to restore “integrity” to politics.
