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Rishi Sunak on Monday insisted he would restore integrity to politics following his sacking of Nadhim Zahawi as Conservative chair, as new opinion polling suggested the UK prime minister’s popularity is declining.With opposition…

UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has sacked Nadhim Zahawi as chair of the Conservative party after his ethics adviser concluded there had been “serious breaches” of the ministerial code.Sunak finally jettisoned Zahawi after weeks of…

Nadhim Zahawi, chair of the UK Conservative party, is due to publish his memoirs later this year. The title, A Boy from Baghdad: My Journey from Waziriyah to Westminster, reflects a career that has taken him from the dusty oilfields of…

Nadhim Zahawi, the new UK chancellor, is under pressure to explain his finances after it was reported that HM Revenue & Customs is carrying out an inquiry into his tax affairs.HMRC is allegedly investigating Zahawi after being…

This week, only Nadhim Zahawi has ridden a political rollercoaster to rival the one that ejected Boris Johnson from Downing Street. On Monday, he was the UK’s education secretary — his first cabinet posting. By Tuesday, he had been…

Nadhim Zahawi, the UK’s new chancellor of the exchequer, has said he will review government plans to raise corporation tax from 19p to 25p as Boris Johnson seeks to rescue his floundering administration. Zahawi was appointed on…

Shelley said “poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world”, but politicians may be more powerful after the education secretary attacked the removal of poems by Philip Larkin and Wilfred Owen from a GCSE course as “cultural…

When we look into the fish bowl of politics, it’s hard for us on the outside to see where policy comes from. I read articles that describe new proposals coming from the Department for Education, but have no real idea what this means. We are…

Nadhim Zahawi is the latest in a long line of hypocritical Tory education secretaries who urge state schools to “do better” while denying them the necessary resources (Editorial, 16 May). To add insult to injury, he implies, in spite of all…

I was in a secondary school last week, asked in to talk about how books and writing help with developing a sense of empathy. Before the session, I went through my books looking for pieces that might suggest to the students how they were…