Sunak Takes UK Cabinet on Retreat With Tories Gunning for Zahawi
- British premier wants to discuss Tory priorities, prospects
- Conservative Chairman’s tax affairs under the microscope
Rishi Sunak on Jan. 25.
Photographer: Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament
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Rishi Sunak’s cabinet will gather at the UK prime minister’s countryside residence of Chequers on Thursday to discuss his government’s priorities and the electoral prospects of the ruling Conservative Party.
But among those due to attend is one major distraction: Tory Chairman Nadhim Zahawi, whose job is hanging in the balance after he conceded over the weekend that he’d been “careless” with his taxes and had settled a retroactive bill with the country’s tax collector.