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10 Apr, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Exclusive: Downing Street today became embroiled in the “biggest lobbying scandal in a generation” after new evidence emerged of attempts by David Cameron to influence the Government.

thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…
The Sunday Times can disclose:

• Cameron emailed Boris Johnson’s senior special adviser last year within hours of the Treasury rejecting an application from disgraced financier Lex Greensill to access a Covid emergency loan scheme
thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…
• Cameron said it was “nuts” to exclude Greensill’s company from a multibillion-pound Covid loan scheme and demanded the government reconsider

• He wrote: “What we need is for Rishi [Sunak] to have a good look at this and ask officials to find a way of making it work”
• In a separate development, it can be revealed that Cameron brought Greensill to a “private drink” with Matt Hancock in October 2019

• Cameron and Greensill lobbied Hancock to introduce a payment scheme that was later rolled out within the NHS.
• Greensill planned to make money from the scheme, which was awarded without tender or an open process.

Read the full report from @Gabriel_Pogrund and
@cazjwheeler: thetimes.co.uk/article/david-…

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