One minister says the sacking of Nadhim Zahawi was 'totally the right decision' and there has been little internal protest from a party that wants to put the damaging affair behind it.
His opponents will be able to argue that far from cleaning up government, the prime minister has inserted people into his top team at odds with those values, be that Gavin Williamson, forced to resign over bullying allegations, the sacked Mr Zahawi or deputy PM Dominic Raab, who is being investigated over eight bullying allegations.
"This is why the PM wanted to have a proper process where the facts where established," one ally told me on Sunday. Cleaning up the mess of others, Mr Sunak will hope that what the public see is him doing the right thing.
Mr Sunak, in appointing an independent ethics advisor and then following his advice, is trying to demonstrate that the workings of Mr Johnson and his own are chalk and cheese.What is going on with Zahawi's taxes?
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