“He’s a serious f****r”, was the unvarnished view of one Reform figure about the party’s latest high-profile recruit. Most definitely meant as a compliment, the theory here is that Nadhim Zahawi will bring competence and credibility and strengthen the appeal of the fledgling political outfit with donors. He certainly offers experience, as well as a backstory more engaging than most in the Reform flock. Politics latest – watch live The Iraqi refugee who arrived in the UK unable to speak English and rose to become a multimillionaire businessman and eventually chancellor. But perhaps Mr Zahawi’s proudest political period was as vaccines minister, overseeing the wildly successful rollout of COVID jabs during the pandemic. So his is now an odd choice of party, perhaps, given dalliances Reform has had with vaccine scepticism as well as outright vaccine conspiracy theories. You need javascript enabled to view this content Enable javascript to share Share Nadhim Zahawi made a speech saying he backs Nigel Farage to become prime minister and he believes Reform will Repeated questions about this apparent …