The Mirror revealed on Sunday a company owned by his wife bought the £3.5m Chunnel industrial estate near the Eurotunnel station in Kent in December. Sign up to one of the Mirror's newslettersShe told the Mirror the PM and the Cabinet “treat the Ministerial Code with contempt”. Mr Zahawi, who did not respond to Mirror questions about his wife’s companies, transferred his stake in one of them, Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd, in 2018 when he became a minister. The Mirror found the couple’s property portfolio included £50m in commercial property bought since that time. His published declaration of ministers’ interests says his wife is “director of several limited companies, including Zahawi & Zahawi Ltd, which own... property”.

Source: Daily Mirror July 21, 2021 20:03 UTC