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former adviser to george w bush. welcome to the programme. rishi sunak has ordered an inquiry into the tax affairs of nadhim zahawi, the man he appointed as chair of the conservative party. the ethics adviser sir laurie magnus, a former investment banker, has been asked to get to the bottom of everything , following reports mr zahawi was forced to pay a fine and millions of pounds in unpaid taxes to hmrc. it is quite the turn around. on wednesday the prime minister told the commons there was nothing further to investigate. mr speaker, my honourable friend has already addressed this matter in full, and there is nothing more i can add. but there are plenty of questions that remain unanswered. number 10 says, it was only this weekend the prime minister became aware of penalties mr zahawi had paid to the tax office, while serving as chancellor. in that role, mr zahawi was nominally, overseeing the work of the tax office. a complicating factor. integrity and accountability ....
Prices have been rocketing in china. Is that suddenly we should be concerned about . Rico hizon will make sense of that for you in a moment. But we start in seoul, where the trial of the century is getting started. The head of the biggest company, samsung, is on trialfor bribery. Samsung might be a household name, globally, but his bossis household name, globally, but his boss is not. So what we know about him . He is the boss of the company, jay y lee, but is known by south korean media as the crown prince of samsung. That is because he is the only son of the chairman, lee kun hee, who was convicted of bribery and tax evasion himself, but was pardoned. So jay y lee has been in charge since his father had a heart attack in 2014. He has been the de facto boss. So the lee family are phenomenally wealthy. You can see the figure behind me. Forbes magazine ranking them asias richest Family Last Yearfor Magazine ranking th ....
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Weekend the prime minister became aware of penalties mr zahawi had paid to the tax office, while serving as chancellor. in that role, mr zahawi was nominally, overseeing the work of the tax office. a complicating factor. integrity and accountability is really important to me, and clearly in this case there are questions that need answering. that is why i have asked our independent adviser to get to the bottom of everything, to investigate the matter fully, and establish all the facts and provide advice to me on nadhim zahawi s compliance with the ministerial code. i am pleased that nadhim zahawi has agreed to that approach, and agreed to fully cooperate with that investigation. labour say the prime minister promised integrity and accountability . he doesn t need an ethics advisor, said keir starmer, to tell him that mr zahawi s position is now untenable. the prime minister he will follow the process. so what information do we have about nadhim zahawi s tax affairs. here s ros atkins w ....
Why steve bannon was drawn to donald trump. give me a brief explainer for our audience. well, bannon basically was this outsider, populist. he worked at breitbart news. very passionate taker of sides who was never taken seriously by anybody in washington because as chairman of breitbart, he attacked politicians in both paerts and nobody really liked him. but for trump, who was this outsider and a punch line early on in this campaign cycle, he didn t really have a lot of people to choose from when it came to political advisers, but bannon was more than willing to do it. and every time trump got in trouble during the campaign, even before bannon was his manager, steve bannon was the guy who kind of ran to his rescue and fought his battle is, so after trump made his announcement speech in which he called mexican rainists and drug dealers and came under all sorts of attack, bannon was of the guy who helped organize a trip to ....