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21 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
EXC: Prince Charles aide received gifts from Saudi billionaire while fixing him an honour

Michael Fawcett met tycoon's team at Clarence House to plot CBE

And he got Oxford master to "spontaneously" back it, signing off their form so it was "tickety boo!"
thetimes.co.uk/article/7d271c…
Scotland Yard under pressure as hundreds of emails show how Charles aides got CBE for Mahfouz bin Mahfouz

Fawcett said Saudi was "man of detail" & "passion" in his nomination letter

He sent after becoming "aware" Oxford college was backing Mahfouz. Which he secretly asked it do
It comes as @PeteWishart and @GoodLawProject write to the Metropolitan Police threatening judicial review into failure to investigate Tory "cash for peerages" scandal.

Police says insufficient evidence. They say it's the Met's job to collect evidence.
Two big, constitutionally sensitive decisions for Cresidda Dick coming up...

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11 Nov
Prince Charles's top aide RESIGNS over 'cash for honours' scandal

Michael Fawcett steps down after the Sunday Times revealed he had brokered an OBE for a Saudi donor

He has also severed his company's commercial ties with Clarence House
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…
Our stories on Fawcett - by me and @DipeshGadher

1. Prince Charles aides fixed CBE for Saudi tycoon who gave £1.5m
thetimes.co.uk/article/prince…
2. Charles offered to meet Russian donor
thetimes.co.uk/article/prince…
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24 Sep
Union source emphasises it's "not over til it's over", but seems Starmer faces humiliation over electoral college reforms if he brings to vote

Trade Union & Labour Party Liaison Organisation (TULO) meeting was "BAD": "nobody" defended Starmer, even moderate unions look uncertain
Am told that Starmer claimed he was trying to find a consensus, but wouldn’t actually address the issues. He was instead "bollocked"
Source says unions "one by one" claimed they hadn't been consulted by leader's office ahead of reforms, with even head of TULO saying they weren't involved in discussions...
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18 Jul
EXC: David Cameron claimed £113,000 of taxpayers money to run his private office last year — the highest to date.

He earned $1m as a lobbyist for Greensill over the same period.

His taxpayer funded spokesman didn't acknowledge requests for comment

1/3
 thetimes.co.uk/article/16b396…
Cameron claimed the money as part of his "public duty cost allowance", which assists PMs still active in public life

But in the year up to 31 March 2021, he kept a low profile and his taxpayer-funded office ignored questions on Greensill

Unclear what the money was spent on
2/3
Elsewhere in the Cabinet Office annual report:

Mark Sedwill's remuneration last year totalled *£530,000* - incl severance payments and previously undisclosed "compensation in lieu of notice"

Former cabinet secretary forced out by PM and Cummings, hence extraordinary payoff

3/3
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11 May
Live from the Treasury select committee, where Lex Greensill is giving evidence.

Starts by saying he takes responsibility...but that it is "deeply regrettable" that his insurers pulled the plug on the business

Suggests collapse could've been avoided
1/
 parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/99…
Greensill takes aim at Lord Myners, who has been one of the leading critics of the company

Says Myners "seemed amenable" to the idea of becoming an adviser to his company during a meeting they had - and that he had a follow up encounter with the chairman of Greensill Capital
2/
Greensill says that Lord Myners prepared a statement which the company was preparing to publish - but never did.

"My question in parliament was linked to open ended funds and illiquidity. I've asked many other question of the same issue in my time in parliament...
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22 Apr
🚨On 5 March 2020, David Cameron wrote to the Bank of England, saying: "I do a lot of work with Greensill Capital, now the world leaders in this space. We would be keen to help. . ."

In a separate email he said: "We would be keen to step and help during the current difficulties"
On 9 March, Jon Cunliffe, agreed to meet Cameron/Greensill so they could present their ideas to him directly.

"Cameron explained how Greensill Capital worked, and asked if he and Lex Greensill could come in to brief Jon and other about this. Jon agreed."
bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/fi…
On 16 March, Greensill told the Bank of England about his NHS payday scheme, saying: "We . . .have agreed to pay all NHS employees and contractors daily."

There was no such agreement at the time, nor was there ever one.

At a push a few thousand out of 1.4m NHS staff used it.
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7 Nov 20
EXCLUSIVE: Kate Bingham, chair of Boris Johnson's vaccine taskforce, has charged taxpayers £670,000 for her own team of boutique PR consultants

According to leaked docs, eight full-time consultants from London firm Admiral Associates are on the equivalent of £165K salaries
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Bingham, who is married to Tory minister, Jesse Norman, and went to school with Rachel Johnson, is said to have "insisted" on hiring the team.

This is despite fears that they duplicate work of press officers at BEIS, where task force sits

Source: "I don't know what they do." 2/
Alok Sharma, the business secretary, did not sign off the expenditure, which has cost around £500K already, with contracts running until the end of the year

Instead, it was signed off by a civil servant

The team helps with day to day comms - and a Spotify vaccine podcast 3/ Image
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