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Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Nadhim Zahawi is sacked

Sophy Ridge On Sunday

Sky News

Politics, News, News Commentary, Government

4.2157 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Nadhim Zahawi has been sacked as Tory party chairman after an ethics inquiry into the handling of his tax affairs found a "serious breach" of the ministerial code.

On the podcast, Sophy is joined by Rachel Cunliffe, senior associate editor of the New Statesman, and producer Scott Beasley to react to the news.

Programme Editor: Scott Beasley
Podcast Producer: Soila Apparicio
Podcast Editor: Paul Stanworth

Transcript

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0:00.0

The world is becoming increasingly complex and volatile.

0:03.5

How can we make sense of it all?

0:04.9

I'm Richard Engelt.

0:05.7

And I'm Yalda Hakim.

0:06.7

And we're the top international correspondents at NBC News and Sky News.

0:10.9

And we present Sky News's latest podcast, The World.

0:14.6

Each week, we'll cut through the noise to guide you through the week's global events

0:18.6

and explain to you why what happens out there

0:22.4

matters to you wherever you are. Listen now to the world with Richard Engel and me Yalda Hakim

0:28.0

wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to the Safey Ridge on Sunday podcast. It's a bit of a different podcast today, but I am glad to say that we are joined as usual by the show editor Scott Beasley. Hi, Scott. Hi, Sophie. You're still surviving after the morning. Might need to lie down in a dark and run after that, I think. And we are also joined by Rachel Cunnell, the senior association editor

0:54.6

of the new statement. Great to have you. Good morning. First time on the pod. Yeah, and what a morning

0:59.8

to be doing it. I feel like you brought the news with you. I think this will happen every time I'm on

1:04.2

the show, so have me on again and maybe we'll get some to more resignation from sacking.

1:07.7

Government ministers will be very worried if you turn up and this happens every week. Well, if you don't have any idea what we're talking about, we are talking about the sacking

1:15.6

of Nadim Zahawi, which happened, I think it was about five to nine this morning.

1:19.6

So we're about halfway through the show, doing the interviews as usual, when suddenly

1:24.6

Scott jumps up in my ear and he's like, look, we're going to have to break off the

1:29.1

interview because we've got the breaking news. And you hear as a presenter, those famous words,

1:34.4

it's on a red wire. And a red wire means it's an urgent wire. It means you need to get up your

1:39.7

computer. Switch on immediately. Switch on immediately. Get to the right place and just read what that red wire says because

1:45.8

it is something you need to pay attention to and it was because from then on it was a case

1:49.9

of ripping the show up and rolling on this news.

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