Nadhim Zahawi’s SLAPP results in disciplinary action for his lawyer. Why it happened, and what it means.
Nadhim Zahawi’s attempt to silence me has now resulted in disciplinary action for his lawyer. This is a short piece
10 May 2024
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Zahawi, Barrowman and Mone: why libel law rewards liars, and how we could change it.
Baroness Mone introduced a company, PPE Medpro, to the “VIP fast lane” for supplying PPE to the Government during the
7 November 2023
Three wrong takes on the Zahawi affair
I wanted to try and scotch what I think are three wrong takes on the whole Zahawi business. So a
29 January 2023
Worse than careless? The Zahawi cover-up.
Everyone is talking about the £3.7m tax which Nadhim Zahawi carelessly failed to pay. Perhaps not enough people are talking
24 January 2023
What the Zahawi statement tells us, and what we still don’t know
UPDATE: this was written right after Zahawi issued his statement on 21 January. The timeline in that statement is contradicted
22 January 2023
It’s wrong to say Nadhim Zahawi evaded tax. It’s also wrong to say he didn’t. Here’s why.
It’s increasingly likely that Nadhim Zahawi should have paid £3.7m in tax at some point after 2005, but didn’t. What
20 January 2023
Nadhim Zahawi – the whole story
UPDATE: this was written on 19 January, and I haven’t updated it. We subsequently learned (thanks to the Guardian) that
19 January 2023
Did Nadhim Zahawi pay up to avoid an HMRC enquiry over YouGov?
That’s the obvious inference of this astonishing story in today’s Sun. On the face of it, this confirms my investigation
15 January 2023
Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyers referred to regulator for abusing libel law to shut down debate
Back in July, I reported that Nadhim Zahawi, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, had founded YouGov using a tax avoidance
2 December 2022
The SRA stops secret libel letters
The SRA has warned solicitors to stop sending libel letters which falsely claim to be confidential, and mustn’t be published.
29 November 2022
Nadhim Zahawi – another baseless libel threat
Nadhim Zahawi responded to an innocuous tweet with a libel threat. He refuses to answer any of the many, many
15 October 2022
Nadhim Zahawi – why did he say he didn’t benefit from an offshore trust, when we know he did?
I’ve told Zahawi’s lawyers I’m going to accuse him of lying to Kay Burley in his Sky News interview back
21 September 2022
The end of secret libel letters?
Last month, the Chancellor of the Exchequer instructed lawyers to write to me, accusing me of libel and requiring me
23 August 2022
Nine questions the Chancellor is ducking
I’m going to keep this as a running list of the key questions Nadhim Zahawi is ducking. Any one of
27 July 2022
Ending secret libel letters
This morning I wrote to the Solicitors’ Regulatory Authority, asking them to end the practice of solicitors sending libel letters
25 July 2022
Why publish “without prejudice” and “confidential” correspondence?
This is a slightly wordy explanation that I’ve written primarily for lawyers who are curious why an experienced lawyer would
22 July 2022
The Chancellor’s secret libel letters
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nadhim Zahawi, has been sending threatening letters, drafted by expensive lawyers, to people investigating his
22 July 2022
Nine questions for Nadhim Zahawi
Nadhim Zahawi has provided a series of unsatisfactory answers about his tax affairs. At least two are provably false (and
19 July 2022
Did Nadhim Zahawi’s family trust provide any capital for its 45% founder stake in YouGov?
Nadhim Zahawi founded YouGov, but took no shares in it. A Gibraltar company, Balshore Investments, did instead. Zahawi says this
13 July 2022
Did Nadhim Zahawi use an offshore trust to avoid almost £4m of capital gains tax?
I’ve used information in the public domain, my tax expertise, and input from other tax experts, to try to “reverse-engineer”
10 July 2022