Government must ‘learn lessons’ from Nadhim Zahawi sacking, says Andy Burnham

The government must “learn lessons” from the sacking of Nadhim Zahawi, Labour’s Andy Burnham has said.

Rishi Sunak fired the MP for Stratford-upon-Avon from his position as Tory party chairman after an inquiry into Mr Zahawi found that he had committed a “serious breach” in the handling of his tax affairs.

“This conclusion has felt inevitable for a long time, and yet it has been allowed to dominate pretty much most of January when there is probably the worst crisis in the NHS that I can remember,” the mayor of Greater Manchester told Sky News.

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