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Aug 5, 2025 Analysis

The Zahawi libel story isn’t over – his lawyer is appealing

In July 2022, I wrote that I thought Nadhim Zahawi had lied about his taxes. I was right. Nadhim Zahawi lied repeatedly about his tax affairs, and continued to do so until it became public in January 2023 that – at the same time he was saying he’d always paid taxes in full – he […]

May 10, 2024 Analysis

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 on why it happened, and what it means – for the lawyer, for SLAPPs, and for Zahawi himself In July 2022, Nadhim Zahawi’s solicitors, Osborne Clarke, threatened me with libel for saying that Zahawi had […]

Nov 7, 2023 Analysis

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 pandemic. There was copious evidence that she and/or her husband, Douglas Barrowman, ran the company. In December 2020, a lawyer instructed by Mone and Barrowman told the Guardian that “any suggestion of an association” between […]

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Jan 29, 2023 Analysis

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 quick few words: This was David vs Goliath, and David won! No – Zahawi and his advisers made the tactical mistake of accidentally SLAPPing someone with plenty of financial resources, time, litigation experience, and plenty […]

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Jan 24, 2023 Investigations

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 about the cover-up: all the times Mr Zahawi said his taxes were in order, when he must have known they were not.

Jan 22, 2023 Investigations

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 by Sir Laurie Magnus’ conclusions in his letter to the Prime Minister, but I won’t update this piece. Suffice to say that it’s now clear Zahawi knew he had a serious tax problem well before […]

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Jan 20, 2023 Investigations

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 are the legal consequences? Did he evade tax? As lawyers always say: it depends. UPDATE at 1pm: the Guardian is reporting that Zahawi paid 30% penalties. I’ve updated the below to reflect that Here’s my […]

wi's tax affairs were
fully up to date and
in the UK. He has
aid that he will

any questions from

s he always has done.

—Spokesperson

Jan 19, 2023 Investigations

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 Zahawi had been charged a large penalty. And we now know, thanks to Sir Laurie Magnus, that HMRC started investigating Zahawi well before the start of this timeline, and that Zahawi knew about that by […]

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Jan 15, 2023 Investigations

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 in July that concluded Zahawi had avoided around £4m in tax by arranging for his founder shares in YouGov to be held by a subsidiary of his father’s offshore trust. Zahawi denies the Sun’s story, […]