the british prime minister has sacked the chairman of his party, nadhim zahawi, following an investigation into his tax affairs. mr zahawi says he ll continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. here s our political correspondent chris mason. nadhim zahawi arrived in the uk as a child, unable to speak english. he became a multimillionaire and rose to be chancellor of the exchequer. but tonight, his political career and reputation is in tatters. in a 2,000 word letter to the prime minister, the government s ethics adviser is devastating in his criticism of mr zahawi. sir laurie magnus says. minutes after the prime minister had sacked his party chairman for what he called a serious breach of the ministerial code, the questions began. for a start, why hadn t he got rid of him days ago? as a general rule, i think it is important when allegations are raised that they re investigated promptly. but
mr zahawi had to pay a penalty to settle a multi million pound tax dispute, an investigation ordered by rushi sunakfound he had broken the ministerial code. mr zahawi says he ll continue to support the prime minister from the backbenches, and criticised journalists for the way they reported his tax affairs. our political editor chris mason reports. nadhim zahawi arrived in the uk as a child, unable to speak english. he became a multimillionaire and rose to be chancellor of the exchequer. but tonight, his political career and reputation is in tatters. in a 2,000 word letter to the prime minister, the government s ethics adviser is devastating in his criticism of mr zahawi. sir laurie magnus says. minutes after the prime minister had sacked his party chairman for what he called a serious breach of the ministerial code, the questions began. for a start, why hadn t he got rid of him days ago? as a general rule, i think it is important when allegations are raised that they re inve
affected by the fire are expecting action by the government. i really do hope that michael gove forces developers to sign this and this isn tjust kind of empty words, as we ve seen in the past. many building businesses already pay a cladding tax and want the government to do more to address the issue. the housing secretary has clearly said, he told the house of commons select committee last year, that the reason he s going after uk house builders is because they re domiciled in the uk, they pay taxes here, and they re easier to engage with, as he put it then. we would argue, and we have argued for the past five years or longer, that product manufacturers also need to pay their fair share and help towards the remediation efforts. richard galpin, bbc news. i m nowjoined by sophie bichener, who is part of the uk cladding action group and has been
by the cladding crisis say all they want is safe, mortgageable and sellable homes again. richard galpin, bbc news. earlier, i spoke to sophie bichener from the uk cladding action group. we would like to thank mr gove for acknowledging the part that the government have played in the grenfell tower fire and also the building safety crisis, which has impacted millions from the back of the fire that we saw five and a half years ago. leaseholders have been living in unsafe homes, similar to that of grenfell tower, for those five and a half years, and during that time, they have been paying for increased insurance premiums, fire patrol wardens and all kinds of other interim costs, so all we welcome the comments, and we do appreciate the government admitting their role in this crisis, we now need to see the action, to see these homes being made safe and to do it to ensure lease holders are no longer trapped in these unsafe homes. the levelling up secretary, michael gove, he did announce some