Tories grapple with Greensill scandal: Politics Weekly podcast
Politics Weekly UK
The Guardian
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🗓️ 14 April 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Picture this, static cars, idling engines, angry horns, now picture you, zooming past |
| 0:12.4 | it all, light and breezy, ah, the sweet feeling of whizzing past traffic. |
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| 0:34.0 | The Guardian |
| 0:36.3 | Green sill is the lobbying scandal that just won't go away, and the conservatives aren't |
| 0:41.8 | quite sure how to deal with it. |
| 0:43.7 | I'm Jessica Elgott, Deputy Political Editor of the Guardian, and this is Politics Weekly. |
| 0:51.0 | It's an issue that exposes the far too cozy relationship between politics, government, |
| 1:00.3 | business and money. |
| 1:01.3 | I'm talking about lobbying, and we all know how it works. |
| 1:05.3 | Indeed, it seems the former Prime Minister David Cameron certainly knows how lobbying works. |
| 1:10.8 | For the last month, journalists like myself have attempted to reach Cameron to his response |
| 1:15.0 | to revelations that he sent texts and emails to ministers on behalf of Lex Green sill, |
| 1:19.7 | a financier whose business went bust recently. |
| 1:23.5 | He finally made a statement at the weekend saying he didn't break any rules, but he has learned |
| 1:28.0 | some important essence. |
| 1:30.0 | Issue sorted, right? |
| 1:32.1 | Not quite. |
| 1:33.6 | On Monday, Boris Johnson bowed to pressure to order an independent inquiry. |
| 1:38.2 | Labour says it's not good enough. |
| 1:40.4 | On Tuesday, we found out that one of Britain's most senior civil servants began working as |
| 1:45.1 | an adviser to the finance firm, while still serving in Whitehall, with the approval of |
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