Tories were irritated and angered by Zahawi tax row - what has now emerged makes optics even worse

It's true too that this PM's first 100 days - which will be marked this Thursday - has been more associated with scandals than it has with good governance, writes Sky's BethRigby

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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