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
national parks. hello and welcome to bbc news. the chairman 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. 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? nadhim 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 to him. but he has been very clear that he has paid all his tax due in the uk, that his tax accounts are up to date and he has engaged with hmrc. so that is the posit
the doj to conduct a search of the entire premises for potential vice presidential records and potential classified material . neither mr biden nor his wife were present during the search peter bowes is our north america correspondent. in what can you tell us? this search to base on friday, news of it is onlyjust emerged. according to mr biden s low, access was given to this provide private residence for the department ofjustice to carry out what sounds like a very exhaustive search of the entire stop officials with evermore than 12 hours, looking through private areas of the property, looking through documents and they did find six that were marked as classified. we understand some of those documents date back to mr biden s time as senator. he represented delaware for more others date vice president in the obama administration. days of the documents we don t know, just like we don t know the nature of the documents that were discovered previously at a private office used
you are a sound of music fan out there, it s how do you solve a problem like george santos. he was only sworn in a few days ago, but the republican congressman who lied about, well, where he worked, where he went to school, about being jewish. remember, when he said what he meant was jew-ish? now he s in hot water with members of his own party back in new york state. i ll talk to two new york republicans who are now calling for him to resign. but as the chorus for calls for him to step down get much, much louder, the congressman is trying to shut it down by saying this. i will not. he will not. well, there s also another batch of classified government records found by president joe biden s legal team. that s after the initial discovery of those classified documents in his one-time office in washington back in november. so where were these new documents found, and what s in them? and, frankly, how long have they known about this set of documents as well? plus, a republ