[ianch99]

I think Zahawi is toast. The key to being a tax dodger is not to get caught.

Today's Tory Corruption story:

Conservative health minister has big stake in Covid testing firm

A Conservative health minister has a substantial financial stake in a private health screening and Covid testing firm, raising questions about the potential for a conflict of interest.

Nick Markham, a businessman who was given a peerage under Liz Truss and appointed to the health department, owns about 30% of Cignpost Investments and has done so throughout his first four months in the job.

The company was set up during the pandemic to provide Covid testing and health screening services to the private sector. Markham’s biography for the Department for Health website makes no mention of his private health sector interest, despite describing his previous private sector jobs at ITV and TopUp TV and as the founder of a charity.

Markham was made a health minister in September and declared the Cignpost investment on his register of interests in the House of Lords. Ministerial interests are meant to be overseen by an independent adviser but the post has been vacant for six months since Lord Geidt resigned under Boris Johnson