Rishi Sunak’s political distancing from Nadhim Zahawi has taken another step, with Downing Street refusing to say the prime minister is confident the Conservative party chair has been consistently honest about his tax affairs.
Sunak’s decision to order an inquiry by his new ethics adviser notably failed to limit the fallout from Zahawi’s still-opaque dealings with HMRC, while a former Tory minister called for him to step aside while the investigation took place.
