14 Apr 2021
Former prime minister David Cameron insists he did not break any rules when he lobbied the government on behalf of the financial services company Greensill Capital.
Campaigners say the law on how businesses and others get access to UK government ministers is not fit for purpose.
What did David Cameron do?
The former Conservative prime minister started working for Greensill Capital in 2018 as a “part-time senior advisor”. The finance firm’s founder Lex Greensill had been an unpaid advisor to Mr Cameron’s government.
Last year, Mr Cameron texted the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, on the subject of whether Greensill would get access to emergency government Covid loans. It has also emerged that a private drink took place between Mr Cameron, Health Secretary Matt Hancock and Lex Greensill in 2019.
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ON the back of security threats, especially the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency, Nigeria has consistently ploughed vast resources into defence spending in the past decade. The outcome has been chiefly underwhelming. Despite billions of dollars being appropriated to beef up the capabilities of the Armed Forces from the Goodluck Jonathan era up till the moment, Boko Haram is still a menacing force. Additionally, banditry and kidnapping for ransom have assumed a frightening dimension in the North, spreading southward since the President, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), won office in 2015. This is a double jeopardy: insecurity is increasing amid more funding. Therefore, there is a fundamental problem seething beneath the surface.
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