designer dogs and organised crime a new investigation finds bulldogs being bred with extreme features, and sold for huge sums of money. rolling back the years in the premier league how arsenal and manchester united delivered a thriller as arsenal snatch a late win to pass another test of their title winning credentials. good morning. the north west to south east split in the weather today. in the southeast it is cold, frosty. we have fog, some slow to clear. where it does we will see sunshine. in the north west it is mild, cloudy and we have patchy rain. all the details later. it s monday the 23rd of january. our main story. pressure is growing on the former chancellor nadhim zahawi to release more details about his tax affairs it s as the bbc was told he did pay a penalty to hm revenue and customs. mr zahawi is said to be determined to stay on as conservative party chairman and the prime minister has expressed confidence in him but labour says his position is untenab
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claims he tried to avoid tax. on saturday, he released a statement in which he confirmed he had paid money to settle a dispute with the tax office. he said it was to do with shares he d given his dad for helping him to found the polling company yougov. he said that hmrc had disagreed about the exact allocation and that he had chosen to settle the matter and pay what they said was due. he said hmrc had concluded this was a careless and not deliberate error. but he didn t confirm reports that he had also had to pay a penalty. it wasn t until sunday night that allies of mr za hawi acknowledged that. some conservative colleagues have urged him to put all of the information in the public domain. the more transparency, as early as possible, might have avoided all this speculation. if there s more to it, then he will absolutely have to stand up and take the consequences, and the prime minister, i m sure, will take the appropriate action. but at the moment, we don t know the whole story. all
to stay on as conservative party chairman and the prime minister has expressed confidence in him but labour says his position is untenable. our political correspondent helen catt reports. nadhim zahawi has held several top governmentjobs and we re told he intends to keep his current one as the conservative party chair, despite coming under pressure over claims he tried to avoid tax. on saturday, he released a statement in which he confirmed he had paid money to settle a dispute with the tax office. he said it was to do with shares he d given his dad for helping him to found the polling company yougov. he said that hmrc had disagreed about the exact allocation and that he had chosen to settle the matter and pay what they said was due. he said hmrc had concluded this was a careless and not deliberate error. but he didn t confirm reports that he had also had to pay a penalty. it wasn t until sunday night that allies of mr za hawi acknowledged that. some conservative colleagues have