you have plans for the problems it is facing. let s get some reaction now from the lib dem mp christine jardine. thank you for being with us. this news broke a few hours ago, what do you make of it, what is your initial reaction? , , ., ., ., ,, reaction? this should have happened da s auo. reaction? this should have happened days a90- rishi reaction? this should have happened days ago. rishi sunak reaction? this should have happened days ago. rishi sunak should - reaction? this should have happened days ago. rishi sunak should have i days ago. rishi sunak should have acted. he should have acted when he knew there was this penalty had been paid. it sjust not knew there was this penalty had been paid. it s just not good knew there was this penalty had been paid. it sjust not good enough. now we need to know, when did he know? who knew? why didn t he act sooner? there are serious questions for this government to answer and we need an independent inquiry to get at the bottom ofjust wi
to rishi sunak s weakness that it has taken so very long for it to happen. but this isn tjust about one individual. this is about right at the heart of government a government that isjust mired in sleaze. we ve had nadhim zahawi, suella braverman, who herself also broke the ministerial code and then appointed as home secretary, dominic raab, gavin williamson. i think this speaks to a government thatjust is focused on the conservative party, not on the interests of the public, and this is going to continue to happen. this really isn t going away, and i think there are still serious questions that the prime minister needs to ask about all of this. nadhim zahawi has spent weeks seeking to dodge questions and to threaten those who asked him questions about his tax affairs. so, that was labour s response to all of this. david, where does this leave the premiership of rishi sunak? of course, when he first came in, he stood famously outside the door of number ten and said his government was g
zahawi should have been sacked. it shouldn t have had to wait for this, it should have happened already. the reason the prime minister had to wait, we had that from michael gove, we needed to have a cool, forensic look at all the facts. we needed to establish all the facts. in this country, people are innocent until proven guilty. so there needed to be an investigation, we have had that investigation, we have had due process. so laurie magnus and his letter to the prime minister and the prime minister has acted immediately on it? i prime minister has acted immediately on it? . , , prime minister has acted immediately on it? , ., on it? i absolutely agree with michael gove, on it? i absolutely agree with michael gove, we on it? i absolutely agree with michael gove, we need - on it? i absolutely agree with michael gove, we need due l on it? i absolutely agree with - michael gove, we need due process, but when we have a situation in government, the facts are already known, they are in
this is bbc news. welcome if you re watching here in the uk or around the globe. i m ben brown. our top stories: the british prime minister, rishi sunak, has sacked the chairman of his conservative party, nadhim zahawi, after an independent adviser investigated his tax affairs he concluded his report, he wrote to the prime minister earlier today and then the prime minister immediately on receipt that nadhim zahawi could no longer stay in the cabinet. israel s security cabinet agrees new measures in response to the deadly attack on a synagogue in eastjerusalem. translation: i will submit to the security council, translation: i will submit to the security council, additional- translation: i will submit to the security council, additional steps i security council, additional steps in the fight against terrorism. this includes significantly hastening and
and finally, he assures the prime minister of his support from the backbenches in the coming years . our political correspondent davd wallace lockhart gave me an update on this morning s breaking news. we didn t know when this was going to come, but this morning we got the report from sir lawrie magnus, the prime minister s ethics adviser who had been investigating nadhim zahawi, and after his findings, we also got that letter from the prime minister which he had sent to nadhim zahawi, telling him he was sacked from government. now, if we go through both of them first of all, lawrie magnus goes into a lot of details in his findings, and it is quite critical of how nadhim zahawi has conducted himself in all of this. he says nadhim zahawi first started having talks with hmrc in april 2021. mr zahawi told laurie magnus that he formed the impression that this was just questions coming from hmrc.