David Cameron and the toxic banker (Pt 2): Collapse and aftermath
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The Times
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🗓️ 12 April 2021
⏱️ 32 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 this second instalment, we speak to one of the Sunday Times journalists who exposed the story and chart how it all unravelled.
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Guest: Gabriel Pogrund, Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
Further reading:
- 'David Cameron and the toxic banker Lex Greensill: the exclusive inside story', Gabriel Pogrund and John Collingridge, The Sunday Times, March 27th, 2021.
- 'David Cameron, Jeremy Heywood, Lex Greensill and all that "free money"', Gabriel Pogrund and John Collingridge, The Sunday Times, April 4th, 2021.
- 'Greensill: The key facts', Gabriel Pogrund, April 4th, 2021.
- 'David Cameron spent two months browbeating Rishi Sunak’s officials', Gabriel Pogrund and Caroline Wheeler, The Sunday Times, April 11th, 2021.
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| 0:00.0 | From jet engines to space rockets, telephones to computers, the world has seen spectacular |
| 0:06.1 | change in the last hundred years, and the pace of progress is getting faster and faster. |
| 0:12.0 | From electric cars to the netaverse, drone deliveries to climate solutions and genetic |
| 0:16.6 | sequencing, we're investing in the companies that are not just changing the world today, |
| 0:21.4 | but are also shaping the future. |
| 0:23.8 | The Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust managed by Bayley Gifford, invest, in progress, |
| 0:29.1 | capital at risk. |
| 0:31.0 | Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as |
| 0:38.2 | you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean |
| 0:46.1 | back. |
| 0:47.4 | And before you know it, you're there. |
| 0:50.6 | This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does. |
| 0:55.2 | Avanti West Coast. |
| 0:57.5 | Feel good travel. |
| 1:00.9 | In our last episode, we heard about how a young Aussie banker, Lex Greenseal, an elected |
| 1:12.0 | and unappointed, appeared at the heart of David Cameron's government, promoting his |
| 1:17.5 | bonza new idea, supply chain finance. |
| 1:21.5 | Other than as we've bewildered them, they didn't know exactly why he was there. |
| 1:25.8 | Was he there to help the taxpayer? |
| 1:28.5 | Was he there to help city group, his bank where he'd been managing director in charge of |
| 1:34.3 | supply chain finance? |
| 1:36.0 | Or was he there to help himself having just founded his own supply chain finance company? |
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