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David Cameron and the toxic banker (Pt 1): The rise of Lex Greensill

The Story

The Times

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3.91.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The financier Lex Greensill enjoyed privileged access to No 10 – and dragged former PM David Cameron into a scandal.

In the first of two episodes we speak to one of the Sunday Times journalists who exposed the story, charting Greensill's rise from son of Australian farmers to the ultimate insider.

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The full series - ‘Cameron and the toxic banker’ - is available to download and listen to all in one place, here.

Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times.

Host: David Aaronovitch.

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