65. Rishi Sunak and the Greensill scandal - LIVE SHOW
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🗓️ 12 April 2021
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Summary
It's the story everyone should be talking about. David Cameron lobbied Chancellor Rishi Sunak about funds for Greensill Capital as it teetered on the edge of collapse. What was the nature of the lobbying, how serious is the scandal - and what does it tell us about politics and money in the UK?
Joining me are the Sunday Times' Gabriel Pogrund, the Financial Times' Robert Smith, and Riley Quinn from Trashfuture podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, this is Aaron Jones. Welcome to the show. Blimey, this is a very, very |
| 0:14.1 | important show. This is a big, very big. This is the story we should all be talking about right |
| 0:18.8 | now in a major, major way. It's been described as the biggest lobbying stand all in a generation. |
| 0:24.8 | It is the Green Sill lobbying scandal. Just very quickly, if you haven't heard of it, there is |
| 0:30.9 | one of the new story which you've probably noticed is dominating most of the coverage right now. |
| 0:35.6 | Lex Green Sill, you heard about this guy? So he's friends with Cameron, a former unpaid advisor to |
| 0:41.8 | our fallen Prime Minister, founded Green Sill Capital, which was thrown into turmoil as it |
| 0:47.2 | cheated on the age of bankruptcy. David Cameron lobbied Rishi Senak, of course our Chancellor, |
| 0:52.6 | amongst others for financial support. Now today we have the absolutely fantastic journalist who |
| 0:59.2 | have broke this huge story and we're going to be talking to them about the details, about what it |
| 1:06.2 | all means, about the repercussions, will there be any? And we'll be looking later on, we have |
| 1:14.0 | Riley Quinn to talk about broader analysis. What does this mean politically? What does this mean |
| 1:20.0 | about politics in Britain and beyond? Now to kick off, we're going to bring in to fantastic |
| 1:29.4 | journalists who have broken this scandal, Robert Smith and the Financial Times and Gabriel Pogrand |
| 1:35.1 | from the Sunday Times. Hello, both of you, great to see you both. Hey, it's beyond. |
| 1:40.0 | Hello, hello. So let's start with you, Robert. So you've been working on this story. You've |
| 1:46.6 | done several pieces, we've just flashed one up. Here we go. Bungled Australian |
| 1:54.0 | camera, so green salad camera and bungled Australian lobby. Now, do you just want to explain |
| 1:58.5 | what the hell is Green Sill Capital? Because people, I mean, this is a company which the likes |
| 2:03.5 | of you write about soft bank vision, fun, put $1.5 billion into this. People were, as you say, |
| 2:09.7 | bewitched by its financial engineering. What the hell is Green Sill Capital? And just give a |
| 2:15.1 | background of this scandal. What is this scandal? What is it matter? So I think in terms of what |
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