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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent

What is the Greensill scandal overshadowing David Cameron’s return to cabinet?

David Cameron
David Cameron joined Greensill as an adviser and lobbyist more than two years after he left No 10. Photograph: Justin Tallis/AFP/Getty Images

David Cameron’s surprise return to the cabinet as foreign secretary comes just two years after a parliamentary inquiry found he had shown a “significant lack of judgment” over a lobbying campaign for a bank in which he held a personal economic interest.

The former prime minister launched the intensive round of text messages to ministers and high-ranking civil servants at the height of the Covid pandemic on behalf of Greensill Capital, which collapsed the following year.

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