allegations are and what questions have yet to be answered. did you switch off your lights in the last hour? up to a million people are paid to use less electricity to avoid blackouts. and manager frank lampard is sacked by everton after just a year as the team faces relegation. and coming up in sport on the bbc news channel. no stopping novak djokovic chasing a record extending tenth title in melbourne he cruises into the quarter finals of the australian open. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. rishi sunak has asked his independent ethics adviser to look into the tax affairs of the conservative party chairman and former chancellor nadhim zahawi. the prime minister has resisted calls to sack mr zahawi but says, clearly, there are questions that need answering. mr zahawi paid a penalty believed to be around £5 million to the tax authority hmrc for unpaid tax while he was chancellor. mr zahawi says he made a careless error and is confident he has acted prop
the questions around the finances of the party chairman, the conservative party chairman. now, rishi sunak has decided, as far as nadhim zahawi is concerned, that the decent thing to do, the thing that emphasises integrity, something he emphasised when he became prime minister, is to examine the facts, to have this investigation, to see if there has been a breach of the ministerial code. and that will take some time. now, what tends to happen when there are these westminster inquiries that they can act as something of a fire blanket, they can smother some of the political flames, blanket, they can smother some of the politicalflames, if you like, that surround the subject, because they can say, well, look, this inquiry is trundling on, let it do its work. but the reality is that it is a problem deferred for the prime minister, and indeed for mr zahawi, not a problem resolved. minister, and indeed for mr zahawi, not a problem resolved. chris, thank ou. you may be one of up to a million