“A RETURN OF Tory sleaze” is how Labour leader Keir Starmer described the lobbying scandal that has engulfed Westminster and put former PM David Cameron in the firing line.
Cameron had campaigned to stay in the EU but had proposed the referendum in an ultimately failed bet to quell Euroscepticism within his own Tory party. Cameron said it was “nuts” to exclude Greensill Capital from the scheme, according to emails seen by the Sunday Times. Hancock was then pulled further pulled into the wider cronyism row when it was revealed yesterday that he has shares in a family company which has contracts with the NHS.
Cameron has accepted that he should have communicated with the government “through only the most formal of channels” rather than text messages to Sunak. In a startling revelation, the chairman of Acoba Eric Pickles has said he was told by the Cabinet Office that this approval was unnecessary as Crothers was already working for the firm and so the appointment did not have to be declared.
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