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
fellow citizens could be treated in this way. when the government said, look, we are accepting the recommendations in full and we are going to compensate the victims, it meant something and it cut through. so, to quietly slip out, in a written statement today, not even suella braverman could not even be bothered, the home secretary, to come to the house and make the case, ijust think is outrageous, absolutely outrageous. so, not only have they dropped some of the recommendations, and there was an important recommendation about having a migrants commissioner this is sort of making a distinction between those that come to this country as economic migrants and those who are obviously coming as refugees and claiming asylum dropping that recommendation and others. but also actually, it turns out that half of the compensation has not been paid. that is significant, and i think it will rumble on over the next few days, as it should.
in a written statement today, suella braverman could not even be bothered, the home secretary, to come to the house and make the case, ijust think is outrageous, absolutely outrageous. so not only have they dropped some of the recommendations, and there was an important recommendation about having a migrants commissioner, this is sort of making a distinction between those that come to this country as economic migrants and those who are obviously coming as refugees and claiming asylum, dropping that recommendation and others. but also actually, it turns out that half of the compensation has not been paid. that is significant, and i think it will rumble on over the next few days, as it should. let s talk about your big picture vision for a labour government s outlook on foreign affairs and britain s place in the world. i m conscious that even assiduous newscasters, our audience, may not have digested every syllable of your speech the other day. scandalous!