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There are already “some quite robust systems” in place on lobbying, a senior minister has argued in the wake of the Greensill Capital controversy. A series of probes have been commissioned, including by Downing Street, as Westminster looks to understand the role former prime minister David Cameron played in securing Whitehall access for Greensill, which was selected as an intermediary lender for some Government Covid-19 support loans at the start of the pandemic, and whose collapse now risk...

David Camerons Lobbying Email Revealed Amid Reports He Pressed Govt to Back $968 Mln UK-China Fund © AFP 2021 / LILLIAN SUWANRUMPHA Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/uk/202104181082661276-david-camerons-lobbying-email-revealed-amid-reports-he-pressed-govt-to-back-968-mln-uk-china-fund/ Late last week, David Cameron admitted that there were "lessons to be learnt" from the Greensill Capital lobbying scandal. He reiterated that he had "not b...

A SENIOR Tory minister who worked under David Cameron has said there are some "quite robust systems" in place on lobbying.

UK lobbying scandal balloons After Greensill collapsed this March, a series of investigations by the Times and Financial Times revealed that Cameron had become an advisor for the company in 2018 and tried to use his political and personal connections to secure government financial backing. Cameron reportedly held millions of pounds’ worth of shares in the operation. Founder Lex Greensill had been a special advisor to the Tory government under Cameron, where he used his position to push a po...

David Cameron is facing yet more scrutiny over his role at a software firm based in offshore tax haven, Bermuda.   The former Prime Minister has been accused of deep hypocrisy by critics for chairing the advisory board at a firm called Afiniti.  The software business, which provides technology for call centres in Pakistan, boasts names on its payroll including Princess Beatrice and Prince Harrys old friend Tom Inskip. The company is based in Bermuda - which was dubbed the worlds worst corpo...

A former Prime Minister is causing trouble for the current one.

Further links have emerged between Whitehall and Greensill Capital, the collapsed lender that David Cameron lobbied for. David Brierwood combined a role as a crown representative in the Cabinet Office with being a director at Greensill for three and a half years. The Cabinet Office stressed that Mr Brierwood’s role was nothing to do with supply chain finance, Greensill’s area of business, and all crown representatives go through “regular propriety checks”. There is no suggestion of wron...

The lobbying row escalated again today as it emerged another Cabinet Office adviser appointed by David Cameron was working for Greensill. David Brierwood combined a role as a crown representative in the Cabinet Office with being a director at Greensill for three and a half years. The Cabinet Office stressed Mr Brierwoods role was nothing to do with supply chain finance, Greensills area of business, and all crown representatives go through regular propriety checks. There is no suggestion of wron...

SEX and politics has really only one rival for headline-grabbing at Westminster: money and politics. In 2010, David Cameron proved the power of irony is never understated when he admitted how the next big scandal to hit Westminster would be over lobbying or, as he put it, the “far too cosy relationship between politics and money”. Sure enough just weeks later, Stephen Byers, the ex-Labour transport secretary, was caught on camera foolishly telling an undercover reporter that, once out...

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