For those who were interested in this piece, The Times has some great further details linking Zahawi to Crowd2Fund
New: A company with close ties to Zahawi’s family failed for six years to comply with transparency laws designed to stamp out money laundering.
https://www.tortoisemedia.com/2023/01/24/sensemaker-230124/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/CatNeilan/status/1617841185250508800
Harper Collins have thrown a £510,000 advance at Boris Johnson for his memoirs, updated register of MPs interests show
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DavidTWilcock/status/1618677853645639691
Monday 👋‘s @[email protected]:
8.05pm @[email protected] Zahawi🔹
8.15pm @[email protected] elec saving⚡️
8.25pm @[email protected]🇺🇦
8.35pm @[email protected] spiking🍹
8.50pm @[email protected]🗞️
9.05pm @[email protected] face to face👮♂️
9.10pm @[email protected] @[email protected]🗣️
9.35pm @[email protected] balance
9.50pm @[email protected]
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kaitborsay/status/1617614171868172291
“Monday 👋‘s @TimesRadio: 8.05pm @CatNeilan Zahawi🔹 8.15pm @ELPinchbeck elec saving⚡️ 8.25pm @bctallis🇺🇦 8.35pm @Sacha_Lord spiking🍹 8.50pm @patrick_kidd🗞️ 9.05pm @DonnaJonesPCC face to face👮♂️ 9.10pm @lionelbarber @sophiasgaler🗣️ 9.35pm @petabeeuk balance 9.50pm @CockbainEvents”
Just looking back at the transcript of the DCMS committee hearing with Richard Sharp.
He dodges the question about whether his friendship with Boris Johnson made it a "cosy" appointment and says the interest in the role was "entirely" his own initiative
British site @[email protected] & @[email protected] collaborated on a first-of-its-kind “database of databases” to reveal the scale of money funneled into UK politics. They reported that since the end of 2019, MPs have earned ~US$20.8 million on top of their salaries.
Our most popular data journalism stories of the week include a UK political money tracking tool, Central Asia's perception of the war in Ukraine, and an analysis of the sentencing of US Capitol rioters.
Epic Playbook fail ... Wrote all this about the #WestminsterAccounts and managed not to put it in the actual newsletter @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected]. Apologies!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/e_casalicchio/status/1613172798133878786
Our #WestminsterAccounts being discussed on the floor of the Commons
The SNP's Stephen Flynn describes it as "utterly perverse" that senior Conservatives are "feathering their nests" by charging money for outside engagements, "whilst seeking to deny working people the opportunity to strike for fair pay" #PMQS http://bloom.bg/3GA4kjW
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/BloombergUK/status/1613151832230232064