Sunak should press Zahawi to resign, says former Tory minister

Nadhim Zahawi, the Conservative party chair, has said he has ‘acted properly throughout’. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Rishi Sunak should encourage the Conservative party chair, Nadhim Zahawi, to resign because his position is untenable, a former Tory cabinet minister has said.

David Gauke and the Conservative peer Lord Hayward urged Zahawi to consider his position as he comes under increasing pressure over his tax affairs, with Sunak braced for a grilling at prime minister’s questions.