Nadhim Zahawi
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Nadhim Zahawi is a British politician who has held various roles, including Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. This interview reveals his focus on coalition-building and his pragmatic approach to leadership, emphasizing the importance of transparency and collaboration in government.
“Actually, and this is really something that you might want to take back, Alistair, to the team in the Labour Party, they're worried because they're hearing mixed messaging from Rachel at the moment. And I don't want to obviously turn this into a party political argument here, but there is a bit of a apprehension as to what could happen.”
“Rather than a political activist in the way his father was, my grandfather, but didn't want to join the party. And in Iraq, and this is the bit that actually then we can talk about sort of what happened post the removal of Saddam and the mistakes we made, Alistair and I are probably on the same page that Saddam needed removing, I think wh…”
“Complex systems. And I think it's one of the lessons I hope we learn going forward by treating the nation as adults, saying, look, here are the numbers. Within those numbers, you'll see some stuff that the red tops will be shock horror. For example, very low uptake of vaccines in postgos around Tottenham in North London.”
“So, again, on that, when you are in the either storm, and when our city, for example, Dan Needle was inaccurate, he accused me of tax evasion. He accused me of investigation to me by the SFO or someone else, maybe not him by the serious fraud office, which is completely untrue and alien to me.”
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