Latest updates: Lib Dems criticise Tory ‘hideaway day’ as ethics probe into Tory party chair’s tax affairs continues
The work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, has suggested the ethics probe into Nadhim Zahawi could conclude in as little as 10 days.
Asked on ITV’s Peston programme last night about rumours that the probe could be done within 10 days, Stride said it “wouldn’t be untypical” for Sir Laurie Magnus to operate in that timeframe.
I can’t be drawn on an arrangement of which I don’t know all the details. But the good news is that we will – in around, it sounds like, 10 days’ time or thereabouts – hear from the ethics adviser, who will report to the prime minister, the prime minister will then have the facts and be able to make exactly those judgments.
