Nadhim Zahawi’s job as Tory chair ‘hanging by a thread’, says former No 10 communications chief – UK politics live

Latest updates: Conservative government under pressure over revelations Zahawi paid penalty to settle tax dispute while in cabinet

Good morning. Since the end of the second world war, UK governments have generally been brought down by economic/financial crises (1970, 1974, 1979, 2010) or sleaze/ethics crises (1964, 1997). The current Conservative government is on course to fail on both.

Ambulance staff are on strike again over pay. And Nadhim Zahawi, the Conservative party chair, is under pressure to resign over revelatons that he paid a penalty to settle a tax dispute while he was in cabinet.