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A senior Cabinet Office official has admitted that Lex Greensill’s appointment to a role in Downing Street was a “screaming, glaring conflict of interest”. Darren Tierney, director general of propriety and ethics in the Cabinet Office, told the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) that the Australian financier’s exact role as an adviser was “unclear”. Links between Greensill Capital, a firm which was founded by the financier, the Government and David Ca...

Darren Tierney, director general of propriety and ethics in the Cabinet Office, said financier Lex Greensill’s exact role as an adviser was…

Greensill director’s role as government procurment chief ‘extraordinary’, says civil service head

The rat remains elusive: what we learned from Simon Case about rows besieging No 10 Cabinet Secretary gives little away during grilling by MPs, as Boris Johnson continues to feel the heat over mounting controversies 26 April 2021 • 10:04pm Dominic Cummings claimed that Boris Johnson wanted donors to secretly pay for the renovation work on his Downing Street flat Credit: Phil Noble/Reuters Boris Johnson was battling on multiple fronts on Monday as pressure mounted over the funding of his Down...

A senior Cabinet Office official has admitted that Lex Greensill’s appointment to a role in Downing Street was a “screaming, glaring conflict of interest”. Darren Tierney, director general of propriety and ethics in the Cabinet Office, told the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) that the Australian financier’s exact role as an adviser was “unclear”. Links between Greensill Capital, a firm which was founded by the financier, the Government and David Ca...

Last modified on Mon 26 Apr 2021 14.33 EDT A failed financier at the centre of a Downing Street lobbying scandal had no contract to work for the government despite spending years inside No 10 under David Cameron, a committee of MPs has been told. Lex Greensill had a desk and a security pass to gain access to the prime minister’s offices, senior civil servants told MPs. But officials disclosed on Monday that he was neither a civil servant nor a special adviser and they could find no contracts ...

A senior Cabinet Office official has admitted that Lex Greensill’s appointment to a role in Downing Street was a “screaming, glaring conflict of interest”. Darren Tierney, director general of propriety and ethics in the Cabinet Office, told the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) that the Australian financier’s exact role as an adviser was “unclear”. Links between Greensill Capital, a firm which was founded by the financier, the Government and David Ca...

A senior Cabinet Office official has admitted that Lex Greensill’s appointment to a role in Downing Street was a “screaming, glaring conflict of interest”. Darren Tierney, director general of propriety and ethics in the Cabinet Office, told the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) that the Australian financier’s exact role as an adviser was “unclear”. Links between Greensill Capital, a firm which was founded by the financier, the Government and David Ca...

Last modified on Sun 25 Apr 2021 16.07 EDT A new inquiry will be launched into civil servants taking second jobs, likely leading to officials facing tougher scrutiny after the Greensill scandal, the Guardian has learned. Simon Case, the cabinet secretary, is due to announce the move at his appearance in front of a parliamentary committee on Monday, after an audit of how widespread the problem is across Whitehall. Permanent secretaries at each department were instructed to find out how many mand...

MP for Ellesmere Port Anyone keeping up-to-date with political news in the last few weeks will almost certainly have heard references to the term ‘cronyism’. It is the description given to what is accepted as a corrupt practice where individuals in positions of power and influence abuse their authority to dispense favours to their friends and allies. In particular, allegations have been made that Government Ministers have for some time been guilty of widespread cronyism when dealing, for ...