Who is Nadhim Zahawi? Everything you need to know about the Tory party chairman under fire

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After a dramatic 48 hours in Westminster last July sparked by the surprise resignations of then-Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Health Secretary Sajid Javid, Boris Johnson was finally forced to step down as UK President. Prime Minister.

After Owen Paterson, the Partygate saga, the Jimmy Savile insult, those blocked Rwanda deportation flights, the boos at the Queen's Jubilee, the vote of confidence, the exit from Lord Geidt, two by-election beatings, the departure of party chairman Oliver Dowden and the particularly rotten Chris Pincher scandal, the 'greased piglet' finally slipped from the podium.

The fact that Mr Johnson able to overcome this final controversy as long as he did was almost entirely down to one man: Nadhim Zahawi.

The then Education Secretary was summoned to Downing Street at 9 p.m. on the evening of Tuesday July 5, met the Prime Minister for about an hour and duly emerged as Chancellor.

Moving almost as fast as his boss, h We didn't lose time to deny rumors he was threatening to join the exodus unless Mr Johnson gives him the job l e higher in front of then Foreign Secretary Liz Truss.

He was out early the next morning to do the media rounds and pledge to be the 'evidence-based chancellor' Britain needed.

M . Zahawi emphasized 'delivery' as he tackled an economy in dire straits mired in an ever-worsening cost-of-living crisis, insisting that the "fiscal discipline" was what was needed to "check the scourge of inflation".

Asked by Nick Robinson on BBC Radio 4's Today program to find out if he was the man to introduce the bold new tax cuts that Mr Sunak had opposed, the latter's successor said that everything was up for review and that he would “leave nothing on the table”.

His Labor counterpart, Rachel Reeves, scoffed at the idea, pointing out that he voted for all 15 tax hikes introduced by the government...