Rishi Sunak is taking his Cabinet to Chequers, the Prime Minister’s grace-and-favour country retreat, for what a spokesperson says will be a “focus on the five priority areas” Sunak announced in his New Year’s speech.
But the problems that bedevilled him at Prime Minister’s Questions — the tax affairs of party chair Nadhim Zahawi, among other things — have not gone away. Indeed, more is to come, with Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab said to be the subject of formal bullying complaints by at least 24 civil servants.
