The controversy over the tax scandal that threatens the British minister Nadhim Zahawi, member of the Cabinet and president of the Conservative Party, continues, embarrassing the new prime minister Rishi Sunak after the numerous similar events that have befallen the governments of his predecessors.
An initial request for resignation also came today from within the Tory parliamentary group, through the mouth of Caroline Nokes, former deputy minister and voice of the internal opposition for several years, who urged her party mate to "step aside", at least until the conclusion of the internal investigation announced yesterday by Sunak on the case.
For now, the prime minister actually seems to want to stall and wait for the result of this check, but the controversy in the media and in Westminster remains heated and accelerations cannot be ruled out.
While Keir Starmer's Labor opposition rides the affair, not without insisting on challenging Sunak to "torpedo" the minister hic et nunc.
Meanwhile, a spot survey carried out by YouGov, an opinion giant co-founded by Zahawi himself before he entered politics, today accredits a majority of Britons in favor of his resignation.
Nadhim Zahawi, a 55-year-old Kurdish-Iraqi refugee who became a wealthy businessman in the Kingdom before entering politics, is accused of trying to hide a tax dispute - albeit without formal charges of tax evasion crimes - with the agency of revenue relating to his past business income.
Dispute finally resolved with a settlement and the payment of 5 million pounds of disputed arrears and fines, according to what has now been revealed by the media, at the end of a negotiation defined while the minister himself covered the role of chancellor of the Exchequer (owner of the Treasury, Finance and Fiscal Policy) under then outgoing Prime Minister Boris Johnson.