I broke the Nadhim Zahawi story – why did it take them this long to sack him?
The IndependentThe best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week - from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy When I broke the story of Nadhim Zahawi’s scandalous tax affairs, last July, he should have been sacked in six days. Alerted by, in his words, our “extraordinary” reports, in July Neidle diligently established how much tax Zahawi owed. Speaking on the BBC Radio ‘Media Show’ on Wednesday, Mr Neidle said the first he knew of the Zahawi scandal was when he saw “an amazing story in the Independent claiming Zahawi had been under investigation by the NCA, HMRC and SFO - Zahawi denied it.” That was when he started his own investigation, said Mr Neidle. Equally, if Zahawi had done the decent – and honest – thing and told Sunak he had effectively been fined £1m by the HMRC when he was chancellor and in charge of tax, Sunak would never have dreamed of making him Tory chair.
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