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Jan 2023

31m 46s

Is Sunak too weak to sack Zahawi?

About this episode

Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs are now becoming a problem for Rishi Sunak. The PM has asked for a full acount of what happened - a change of tune from last week when he said there was nothing to see. Does the PM show resilience from holding on to a colleague under-fire? Or weakness by refusing to face the awkward facts?

And we speak to YouTube megastar Nas Daily about Chat GPT and replacing creatives with AI, artificial intelligence.

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Video: Will Gibson-Smith

Planning: Alex Barnett

Production: Gabriel Radus

Editor: Tom Hughes

Executive Producer: Dino Sofos

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