Nadhim turns on the media

So. Farewell then. Nadhim Zahawi. It’s been quite the six months for the onetime favourite to succeed Boris Johnson. He accepted the Chancellorship in July, before turning on Johnson 36 hours later. He crashed out of the leadership race to replace Johnson within days, before being demoted to Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster after just two months at the Treasury. He then backed Johnson to be PM again in October, moments before the latter pulled out of the leadership race. Zahawi was subsequently demoted again by Rishi Sunak to the role of party chairman two days after that. And today he has now lost that post too after less than 100 days at CCHQ.

Zahawi’s inglorious tenure as party chair will be remembered mostly for the dogged focus of the press on his finances, following the revelation in July that he was being investigated for tax avoidance by HMRC while serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer.