To Britain where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has ousted Nadhim Zahawi, the leader of the Conservative Party, over a tax dispute he called a "serious breach" of ethics rules.
This had critics belittling Sunak as a terribly weak leader.
Settling a multimillion-dollar unpaid tax bill as the Treasury Minister has cost Zahawi his job.
This, after a damning ethics probe into the allegation and a letter to Zahawi, where Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called it a "serious breach of the Ministerial Code".
Sunak sacked Zahawi in a move to make good on his promise of having "integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level." "We do, once all the facts are laid out, need decisive action. And that is what the prime minister has given today: decisive action, but only after a full and proper investigation, due process, then effective decision-making." Said Michael Gove, UK Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.
Still a Member of Parliament, Zahawi apologised and said he would continue to support Sunak.
Under three different prime ministers, he was simultaneously being investigated by over a penalty he paid as part of an estimated 4.8-million-pound settlement dispute with tax authorities while serving as treasury chief.
He had called himself "smeared" because he never realised it was a formal inquiry.
But only until earlier this month did he declare the penalty.
What's more embarrassing, Rishi Sunak had adamantly refused to fire him.
Zahawi's constituents in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon called the firing good riddance.
One woman insists, "There's an interculture of irresponsibility, no accountability. They're simply there to serve their own purpose."
Critics agree 100 percent.
"The government really must learn lessons from this situation," said Andy Burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester.
"It's not clear to me what the prime minister has been waiting for. It's been as plain as day for weeks now that this was going to be the outcome. It's just a shame, it's taken him (Rishi Sunak) so long that our country continues to be sucked into this mire of sleaze," lamented Bridget Phillipson, Shadow Education Secretary.
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