Downstream: ‘Dodgy Dave’? The Facts on the Greensill Saga

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🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Political scandal no longer seems to cut through the conversation, but is the unfolding saga around Max Greensill and David Cameron an exception? Aaron Bastani is joined by Sunday Times journalist Gabriel Pogrund to discuss the implications of a story which is only set to grow.

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0:00.0	The Green Sills scandal seems to get bigger every day.
0:12.4	For another reason, it seems to raise important questions about standards in public life
0:16.3	with many feelings that none less than a former Prime Minister, David Cameron, fell massively
0:22.4	short.
0:23.4	With me to discuss the story of Lex Green Sill and David Cameron, his Sunday Times journalist
0:27.3	and author of Left Out, Gabriel, Poggrund, Gabriel.
0:30.5	Welcome to Downstream.
0:31.5	Thanks.
0:32.5	I'm going to start right from the top here, Gabriel.
0:34.5	A lot of people watching this, I'm sure familiar with the words Green Sill, they might
0:38.4	know that David Cameron has something to do with this story.
0:40.9	Can you provide a quick outline?
0:43.4	What has happened here?
0:44.4	Why is this a scandal?
0:45.4	We hear the words scandal all the time.
0:47.4	Why is this actually something people should care about?
0:51.3	So let's just zoom out and start at the beginning.
0:55.1	This Green Sill is the sum of watermelon and sugar cane farmers from Bunderburg in Northeast
1:01.9	Australia.
1:02.9	He came to Britain as a 20-something and he joined a bank, Wall Street bank called JP Morgan.
1:11.5	And quickly started becoming an evangelist for a financial product which he claimed he
1:17.3	had a lot of personal affinity to, called supply chain finance.
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