The British Conservatives – although they are also voted by the working class – are often attacked by the fact that the party of the privileged class and the ruling party did not benefit from two incidents that broke out at about the same time, which can only strengthen these stereotypes.
In one of them, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ordered an ethics investigation into the case of former cabinet minister and current party leader Nadeem Zahawi. It turns out that Zahawi — the multi-millionaire founder of the influential YouGov poll — had paid 30 percent penal interest on a tax debt that was not settled at the same time. The BBC described the case as a “dispute with the tax authorities”, which the two parties settled, with Al-Zahawi paying nearly five million pounds to the agency.
Which raises ethical questions: He was minister at the time of the tax debt, and, to make matters even more awkward, he finally settled the bill last summer, when he was finance minister. According to conservative tabloid The Sun
The penalty was imposed on the accounts of the former minister abroad.
The verdict: “Zahawi’s messy tax affairs are toxic to conservatives,” the paper wrote, noting that “Hardworking Sun readers face the highest tax burden in decades.”
The politician – who could be a success story, since he became a wealthy businessman from an Iraqi Kurdish refugee and then successfully ran a Covid vaccination program – claimed it was an “unintentional error of negligence”, and the British accepted it. broadcaster.
Therefore, he is refusing to leave, and as a result, the Labor opposition has begun to demand Prime Minister Sunak to take his place. On the other hand, al-Sanak allowed al-Zahawi to remain at the helm of the ruling party while achieving morality.
Meanwhile, another case could cause the Conservatives a headache: An inquiry is also opened into how Richard Sharp was appointed BBC chairman, just weeks after he helped former prime minister Boris Johnson secure an £800,000 loan.
The Tory donor case is being investigated by the so-called Public Personnel Appointment Commissioner, in parallel with the BBC. The job of the former office is to ensure that in the public sector – although the BBC is not speaking strictly of a public employer – that no wrongdoing can be committed while recruiting and hiring staff, that the process is fair and transparent, that candidates are selected on the basis of their ability and not their prayers. The Head of the Bureau has now announced that it will retrospectively review the competition and applications for the BBC Head position.
Editorial photo: MTI/AP/David Cliff
