the chair of the conservative party nadim zahawi has confirmed that he made a payment to the tax office to settle a disagreement about his tax affairs. mr zahawi said hmrc accepted that an error concerning shares he gave to his father for help in setting up the polling company yougov in 2000 had been careless and not deliberate. it comes after newspaper reports that he d paid a seven figure sum and been subject to a penalty. it s understood the dispute over mr zahawi s taxes was resolved while he was serving as chancellor of the exchequer. earlier labour had called on nadim zahawi to resign. here s our political correspondent helen catt. do you have anything - you want to say, mr zahawi? nadim zahawi was out and about this morning, although not to talk to the press. instead, it was a cabinet colleague who defended him to the cameras, against claims he tried to avoid tax. i don t know about nadhim s personal tax affairs, i wouldn t know them, they are personal and private
president macron says it s the best way to ensure the system remains affordable. campaigners have staged a protest on dartmoor national park in the south west of england after the high court ruled that people aren t allowed to camp there without the permission of landowners. the national park authorities have since agreed a deal to allow wild camping in designated areas but the protestors say their access to the countryside is being eroded. our environment correspondent claire marshall reports from dartmoor. this is a battle bus rolling into the village square. we re here today to summon up a spirit to defend dartmoor and its wild camping rights. the organisers of this rally, the right to roam, say they are at war for the right to sleep under the stars. let s go and summon up the spirit of dartmoor. cheering one of the reasons i m here is because i work with dofe students, bringing them up onto the moors,
credit. that s a provision senator joe manchin says he has issues with. would you support the senate making this bill smaller so that manchin would support it? you know, i m not going to negotiate in public. he has said that he s for the child tax credit but thinks it should be different so let s see what happens in the negotiations. i m going to tell you something, jake. i was on the phone today with one of the ceos in the auto industry. and we are behind as a country keeping up with europe. and asia in terms of advanced technology. we can t afford not to get this done because he told me that even our neighbor canada is beating us and these companies are building battery plants there. i don t want those companies going to canada or europe or to china or korea. we ve got to get this bill done and keep the jobs here. today the senate majority leader chuck schumer, democrat
and so i don t think you need criminal charges against donald trump for there to be some real serious consequences here. bakari sellers, let me ask you, if republican congressmen are part of this, are compliceit in what happened on january 6th, in so many ways and if donald trump was the one who led the charge, why are we not expecting there to be any voter recriminations this november. we re all pretty much expecting that republicans are going to take the house back, maybe even the senate back and there really isn t going to be any political blowback. i mean, that s a good question. and i think part of it has to be the fact that over the next weeks, it really can t be months because we re already in 2022, this committee outside of liz cheney, really needs to get their messaging together about what exactly happened and about what that means. and how you prevent it from happening again. that s the most important thing because, right now, in the list of things that the american publi