New chancellor

The new Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi has spent his first morning in the job defending Boris Johnson, as resignations continue from government.

He went on: "This is a team game, you play for the team and you deliver for the nation. but the idea you have to deliver for the country – a country that's given me, given my family everything, is the right thing to do." grow the economy."

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His wife and two sons are listed as the directors of Zahawi and Zahawi Ltd, from which Zawahi resigned as director on 9 January 2018. He said that the money had been wrongly claimed and eventually repaid £4,000. For me and my family, this was one of the most difficult parts of our decision to leave Iraq. Zahawi served as YouGov’s CEO from 2005 to 2010. “It was hard to fit in initially. Zahawi owns and runs a riding school from the premises of his private estate and in 2013 he admitted to claiming expenses for electricity used to run the stables on his private estate.

Iraqi refugee who arrived in Britain aged nine with no English rises to No 11 Downing Street, propping up Boris Johnson's ailing, scandal-ridden premiership ...

“I see it the other way round, you don’t tackle inequality and poverty unless you tackle education.” We had nothing, and had to go on housing benefit and income support. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. He has also had reason to regret his advocacy for Mr Johnson after backing him for the Tory leadership in 2016 by saying: “You only need to spend a few minutes in the company of Boris and a voter to understand his natural abilities, and the chance he presents to help restore the image of politicians with a cynical public. “He remortgaged our home, put everything into this thing. We have to come together.” “He’d get you mangoes in the Antarctic and brussels sprouts in the desert,” Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Select Committee, has said, identifying a resourcefulness that will serve Mr Zahawi well as chancellor, a position that all too frequently requires its incumbent to conjure something out of nothing. A keen showjumper in his private life, he would – ironically, given the circumstances of his election – be caught up in a minor expenses scandal himself in 2013 when it emerged he had claimed £5,822 to pay for the heating of the stables in which he kept his horses, forcing Mr Zahawi to apologise and repay £4,000. His friend Mr Javid told a BBC radio documentary: “I remember him saying to me he was handing out leaflets on the street somewhere and someone had screwed it up in front of him and said that if you were on fire I wouldn’t waste my p*** on you.” “When you have that level of breakdown, of failure, it really is like a vortex, and our biggest challenge was to get him out of the room and get him to have a shave, go out, and find work.” Following a decade at YouGov and in the aftermath of the parliamentary expenses scandal of 2009, Mr Zahawi was chosen as the Conservative candidate for Stratford-on-Avon in Warwickshire, which he won in 2010 and has held ever since. Mr Zahawi placed the emphasis on “delivery” as he takes on an economy in dire straits, mired in a cost of living crisis that only looks like getting worse, insisting that “fiscal discipline’ is what is needed to “bear down on the blight of inflation”.