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🗓️ 12 April 2021
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0:17.7 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, Expectator's Daily Politics Podcast. |
0:22.4 | I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman. |
0:25.7 | Over the weekend, we finally heard from a former political figure who had been rather quiet of late |
0:31.8 | despite repeated attempts by journalists to get in touch with them. |
0:35.5 | This is David Cameron, the former Prime Minister, |
0:37.9 | following a series of allegations over the Greensill saga. It's about David Cameron's |
0:43.2 | put out a statement after news stories over the weekend suggesting he had a drink with Matt Hancock |
0:48.5 | when it came to trying to procure help for Greensill. What did he have to say? So he has issued a statement saying, |
0:58.7 | I've reflected on this at length, there are important lessons to be learned. As a former |
1:02.9 | prime minister, I accept that communications with government need to be done through only the most |
1:07.6 | formal of channels. So there can be no room for misinterpretation. |
1:11.9 | So he's not saying he's done anything wrong. |
1:14.6 | He's just saying that things could have been misinterpreted |
1:19.3 | because the system has allowed them to be misinterpreted |
1:22.5 | and he thinks those things should change. |
1:25.7 | I was quite interested by the timing of this statement. So |
1:29.9 | you could say that there's been quite a few other things, namely one other dominant thing on the |
1:36.3 | news agenda that may have made Cameron's statement a little less, feature a little less |
1:41.2 | highly in the news agenda. Also, I think that things had reached a stage |
1:47.5 | where all of the newspapers were feasting on this. And when you've got all the newspapers |
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