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Nadhim Zahawi
Nadhim Zahawi is an Iraqi-born British politician who served in various ministerial positions under prime ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, and Rishi Sunak from 2018 to 2023. He most recently served as Chairman of the Conservative Party and Minister without Portfolio from 25 October 2022 until he was dismissed by Sunak on 29 January 2023. A former member of the Conservative Party, h…
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politics · British politician (born 1967) · politician · businessperson · entrepreneur · minister · also Nadhim Zahawi, Nadim Zehawî, Nadim Zehawi, Zahawi
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For too many years, this House has been witness to wrongful convictions in the Post Office-Fujitsu scandal. There remain 800 Post Office convictions based on bad data. Until those convictions are overturned, the victims cannot claim compensation. We could do something good together if the Justice Secretary brought a simple Bill to quash all 800 convictions immediately.
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2026· 7 entries
The London Economic: Count Binface calls out Nadhim Zahawi over false claims he received £180k donation
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Byline Times: Reform’s Nadhim Zahawi Accused of ‘Fantasy’ After Falsely Claiming Labour-Backer Dale Vince Bankrolled Count Binface
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Left Foot Forward: Count Binface corrects Reform’s Nadhim Zahawi over incorrect claim he received a £180,000 donation
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The Sun: Nadhim Zahawi defected to Nigel Farage’s Reform ‘after being snubbed for a peerage’
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Yahoo: Who is Nadhim Zahawi? Millionaire former Tory chancellor who has joined Reform
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Nadhim Zahawi’s lawyers ‘breached code to stifle HMRC revelations’
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“For too many years, this House has been witness to wrongful convictions in the Post Office-Fujitsu scandal. There remain 800 Post Office convictions based on bad data. Until those convictions are overturned, the victims cannot claim compensation. We could do something good together if the Justice Secretary brought a simple Bill to quash all 800 convictions immediately.”
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“My first priority, before anything else, is my constituency work and I would never, or have never, let anything get in the way of this.”
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2023· 6 entries
“I welcome the proposals that my right hon. Friend the Chancellor made in his Mansion House speech, which will increase investment in the United Kingdom. In his upcoming autumn statement, I implore him to build on his Budget announcement with a policy that was originally advocated for in a paper by the Adam Smith Institute, a think-tank I am proud to be patron of, as is set out in my entry in the Register of Members’ Financial Interests. I implore him to make full expensing permanent and to scrap”
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“<Question HRSContentId="{0294F190-29E2-418C-AD60-5F186A73FCF4}">13. <QuestionText HRSContentId="{5FEF6E4C-AE68-4D5E-8343-0BBDBA113589}">What steps his Department is taking to encourage pension schemes to invest in the UK. </QuestionText></Question>”
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“Of course, Stratford-on-Avon racecourse is one such racecourse that has been adversely impacted. I would really welcome the Minister being cognisant of the fact that there is a problem here, when his Department and the Gambling Commission seem to be peddling what I would only describe as drivel about affordability checks being frictionless or racing not being damaged. Clearly, there is damage being done. On the point about how we support racing globally, there is a straightforward lever that we”
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“I want to add my voice to all those who stand with Israel and her inalienable right to defend herself against an unspeakable crime. As someone born in the middle east, as a father and as a human, it was too painful to watch. Israel has to take the necessary steps to root out this evil virus of fundamentalism that has so clearly infested those in Hamas and, of course, destroy it. Just as we stood together against ISIS, we will stand together again. My request to my right hon. Friend is that, when”
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“The Competition and Markets Authority’s recent ruling blocking the acquisition of Activision Blizzard has made us an outlier. Its intervention in the nascent, innovative cloud gaming market was based on potential rather than real market power. You will know, Mr Speaker, that regulators have as much of a lever on growth in the economy as the Government. As we are doing in financial services, all regulators should have a remit for growth, and maybe—just maybe—we can call them “regulators for growt”
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“<Question HRSContentId="{3B1BEBA1-BD50-452A-A57D-1B6F373C23BF}">3. <QuestionText HRSContentId="{2F2D4B85-D066-4E49-8AC5-3E0F5AA09BEC}">What assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill on levels of competition between businesses in digital markets.</QuestionText> </Question>”
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2022· 20 entries
Reported claimRated This tweet appears to have been fabricated by a satirical Facebook page and is now being shared out of context. We can find no evidence Mr Zahawi ever tweeted this, and it appears to be a joke in reference to a genuine blunder by the minister. · Full Fact
Full Fact rated the claim “Nadhim Zahawi confused actors Leslie Phillips and Lesley Joseph in a tribute tweet following the former’s recent death.” This tweet appears to have been fabricated by a satirical Facebook page and is now being shared out of context. We can find no evidence Mr Zahawi ever tweeted this, and it appears to be a joke in reference to a genuine blunder by the minister..
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Yahoo: Nadhim Zahawi Offers UK Tax Cuts If Departments Cut Costs by 20%
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The Mirror: Who is Nadhim Zahawi? Millionaire oil exec Chancellor who claimed expenses at his stables
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“The purpose of the important package announced today is to ensure that parents on universal credit, or the tax-free childcare element, claim what is rightfully theirs. We are spending between £4 billion and £5 billion on helping parents with childcare.”
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“I do not think that any teacher would want to strike after the damage that covid did with students being out of school. In my evidence to the pay review body, I talked about wanting to deliver almost 9%—it was 8.9%—for new teachers this year and a 7.1% uplift next year to take their starting salary to £30,000 a year. My recommendation for more senior teachers was 5% over two years.”
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“At least I am not missing in action. If the hon. Lady had looked at the detail of my White Paper rather than attempted to play politics with it, she would know that I always promised a review of clauses 1 to 18 because we are taking what is in contract with multi-academy trusts and putting it in statute. I have <span id="581" class="column-number" data-column-number="581"></span>now launched that review to ensure that we get it right so that clauses 1 to 18 come to this place and the Bill gets t”
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“The hon. Lady again misses the point. The package is not just about the ratios. It is about looking at how we encourage and grow the childminder market, how we ensure the 1.2 million parents who are eligible to get tax-free childcare make that claim and, of course, how we support teachers, both in our brilliant maintained nurseries and across the system, to do much more for the children we want to see them deliver for.”
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“Indeed, the Secretary of State will engage with my hon. Friend on his passion for this subject. He knows we are investing £17 million in the Nuffield Early Language Intervention programme to improve language skills in reception-age children who most need that help. I would just like to also take this opportunity, because I know—”
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“I am grateful to the Chair of the Select Committee. Those are not just ghost children; they are flesh and blood. We must make sure that we do everything in our power to get them back into school. The national register will identify where those children are, so that we can really focus on that.”
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“Yes I do. The more runways that we can build from which people’s careers can take off, the better.”
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“I am grateful to the hon. Lady. We will wait to see the work of the pay review bodies. We have submitted our recommendation, and we will wait to hear what they say about it.”
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“steady the ship and to stabilise the economy”
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“There have been news stories over the last few days which are inaccurate, unfair and are clearly smears.”
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (2022–2022).
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Career landmark: Chancellor of the Exchequer (2022–2022).
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Career landmark: Minister for Intergovernmental Relations (2022–2022).
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Career landmark: Minister without Portfolio (2022–2023).
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Zahawi drew up guidance on how to accommodate transgender pupils with input from Suella Braverman, the then attorney-general
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Career landmark: Minister for Women and Equalities (2022–2022).
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“the country deserves a government that is not only stable, but which acts with integrity. Prime Minister, you know in your heart what the right thing to do is, and go now.”
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2021· 3 entries
Career landmark: Secretary of State for Education (2021–2022).
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Zahawi announced a youth award scheme to tackle climate change, similar to The Duke of Edinburgh's Awards
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“s Awards. Pupils will be encouraged to boost the biodiversity of their schools by taking initiatives such as erecting bird feeders. Young people will be given a new Climate Leader”
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2020· 2 entries
Was given additional responsibility for the COVID-19 vaccination programme as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment
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Career landmark: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for COVID-19 Vaccine Deployment (2020–2021).
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2019· 3 entries
Career landmark: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business and Industry (2019–2021).
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Career landmark: member of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024).
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A member of his staff, Beverley Gaynor, was listed as an administrator of Le Cercle in the Parliamentary Register of interests
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2018· 2 entries
Career landmark: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families (2018–2019).
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Career landmark: Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children, Families and Wellbeing (2018–2019).
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2017· 1 entry
Career landmark: member of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2017–2019).
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2015· 3 entries
While still a member of the Business Select Committee, Zahawi directed a "tough line of questioning" at Post Office CEO Paula Vennells over the subpostmasters mediation scheme, describing her handling of it as "a shamble
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Joined Gulf Keystone Petroleum, an oil and gas exploration and production company, as a part-time chief strategy officer
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Career landmark: member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2015–2017).
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2014· 1 entry
Published video “Asking the Prime Minister about Shakespeare's Birthday”.
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2013· 1 entry
Published video “Is the CWU paying for the Save our Royal Mail campaign?”.
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2012· 3 entries
Published video “Nadhim Zahawi MP - Lords Reform speech”.
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Published video “Nadhim Zahawi MP proposing the Humble Address - Queens Speech 2012”.
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Published video “Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi defends gay marriage plans on 5Live”.
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2011· 1 entry
Published video “Nadhim Zahawi - St George's and St David's Day Bill”.
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2010· 6 entries
Published video “Behind the scenes at Midlands Today”.
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Published video “What is Horizontal Policy, Mr Cable?”.
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Published video “Maiden Speech”.
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Published video “Gordon has finally called the election”.
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Zahawi stated: "There's a company I have set up and failed in Allen (Hinckley) Ltd
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Career landmark: member of the 55th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2010–2015).
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2008· 1 entry
Zahawi became a non-executive director of SThree, a specialist staffing organisation
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2000· 1 entry
Career landmark: chief executive officer (2000–2010).
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1994· 1 entry
Archer helped campaign for Zahawi for a seat on Wandsworth council
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1991· 1 entry
Zahawi and fellow British-Kurd Broosk Saib were aides to Conservative politician Jeffrey Archer during Archer's "Simple Truth" campaign to help Kurdish victims of the Gulf War
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-06-02.
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