to share details of his tax affairs that are normally shrouded in confidentiality, because that s the way it works in the uk. that is why apparently the prime minister didn t know anything about this. ..with the ethics adviser to the prime minister, who is crawling all over some elements of this to work out if nadhim zahawi, as the conservative party chairman and minister without portfolio, has broken the rule book, the ministerial code. so, mr zahawi clearly thinks that this detail from the tax man will help corroborate his argument that says, look, yeah, there is a conversation with hmrc and i did get clobbered for a massive tax bill, and the penalty for being careless but not deliberate in how he handled his tax affairs. the prime minister is still saying, let s wait ethics adviser to do his work, some in government saying hope he gets a move on, because meanwhile you ve basically got a party chairman who is kind of padlocked in his office, because he can t really s
of the liberation of the auschwitz birkenau death camp, the day honours all those murdered by the nazis during the second world war. you re watching bbc news. now it is time for newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it s adam in the studio. and chris in the studio. and we re going to bejoined in the studio by lots of interesting guests on this episode of newscast. but first of all, chris, give us an update on what is happening with the tax affairs of nadhim zahawi, the tory party chairman, who was chancellor, of course. yeah, so he has now said that he is willing for revenue and customs, the tax people, to share details of his tax affairs that are normally shrouded in confidentiality, because that s the way it works in the uk. that is why apparently the prime minister didn t know anything about this. ..with the ethics adviser to the prime minister, who is crawling all over some elements of this to work out if nadhim zahawi, as the conservative party chairman and m
and we can pick up some of that with ourfirst visitor in the newscast studio. it is david lammy, the shadow foreign secretary, from labour. hello, david! hi! and thanks for giving us a very long speech about foreign policy to digest this week. i m sure chris read every single word, yeah? idid. we ll talk about that in a second. but we were just talking about nadhim zahawi, former chancellor, and his tax affairs. i know you ll probably want to have a pop at the government for not following the rules but ijust wonder is there a lesson in this for all ministers of all governments when it comes to their personal finances? look, i do think that we forget that the vast majority of people watching or listening will be paying their tax paye, have no sort of discussion about how much is taken out have no sort of discretion about how much is taken out of their pay packet, and seriously can t contemplate owing the tax million over £4 million. owing the tax man over £4 million. i mean, it
we ll talk about that in a second. but we were just talking about nadhim zahawi, former chancellor, and his tax affairs. i know you ll probably want to have a pop at the government for not following the rules, but ijust wonder, is there a lesson in this for all ministers of all governments when it comes to their personal finances? look, i do think that we forget that the vast majority of people watching or listening will be paying their tax paye, have no sort of discussion about how much is taken out of their pay packet and seriously can t contemplate owing the tax man over £4 million. i mean, it s hard to compute how far removed from people that is. i remember during expenses, when one minister at the time was able to write a staggering. ..a cheque and thought that that would bring an end to the situation, and of course all it caused was outrage among the public, because most people didn t have that kind of money.