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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Cindy Yu and I'm joined by Katie Balls and James Forsyth. So this week, David Cameron has been hauled in front of MPs to answer for the Queen'sill scandal. James, we've also seen some texts that have been released. So can you talk us through what's been happening this week? So earlier in the week, it was part of his Treasury Select Committee inquiry.

David Cameron put out the kind of 56 messages he had sent to various government ministers and officials about Green Sill Capital.

And I don't mean there were messages that Cameron ever expected to become public.

You know, he signs off one to Tom Scholar, the permanent secretary of the Treasury,

Love, D.C., talks about meeting for an elbow bumper, a foot tap at some point soon.

And so he's now, before Treasury's Sucity Committee today, Cameron calls it in his introductory

statement a kind of painful day. I think the difficulty of the over Cameron is that while

he technically hasn't broken any rules, part of the

reason why he hasn't broken any rules is the rules that were passed when he was prime minister

did not have that much bite to them. And I think the other problem is that as prime minister

and as leader of the opposition, Cameron himself used to warn about lobbying as the next big scandal.

So this is clearly an awkward,

difficult situation for him. He also obviously doesn't want to say how much he was paid. He's just

referring to a big and generous pay package that he had with Greensill. And I think this is what's

difficult. Cameron wants to argue, look, he wasn't just doing this for his own personal financial

interest, but because he thought the scheme was a good scheme.

I mean, the problem is there are sufficient questions about green sale capital

that people are saying, well, why didn't you are, you know,

you're a former Treasury special advisor,

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