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The Weekly paper of the New Communist Party of Britain

Rotten to the core

WHY IT TOOK two weeks for Rishi Sunak to get rid of Nadhim Zahawi is a mystery in itself. The Tory press has been full of stories about the now disgraced former Tory party Chairman’s breach of ministerial rules in an attempt to cover up the fact that he was facing a probe into his tax affairs.

Now the Sunak camp is saying that this all goes back to the Johnson era and that it has nothing to do with the new prime minister – which is at best slightly mislead­ing as Sunak was, after all, the most senior minister in Johnson’s Cabinet.

Although Zahawi seems surprised at the furore in the media that may have ended his political career for ever, nothing should surprise us about his antics. Tory politicians, like most of them on both sides of the House, are just in it for themselves. One goes. Another takes their place.