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
has responded to reports that he had to pay a penalty as part of a multi million pound tax settlement. in a statement, the former chancellor said the tax office had disagreed about the exact allocation of shares his father had in the polling company yougov, which mr zahawi founded. he said hmrc, which is the uk s tax authority, had concluded it was a careless and not deliberate error, and that he had paid what was due. labour had earlier called for mr zahawi to resign over the matter. our political correspondent, jonathan blake, has more on today s statement. for almost a week, nadhim zahawi has been under pressure to give more detail about his tax affairs. there is one central question at the heart of this scrutiny and that is whether he used an offshore entity to hold shares in the polling company yougov which he set up before he came to politics back in the year 2000, and also whether subsequently he has paid a settlement to hmrc for tax that he owed as a result of potenti
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