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Former prime minister David Cameron in 2013
LABOUR called for an investigation into David Cameron today following reports he met Treasury officials to lobby for Greensill Capital to access coronavirus business loans.
The former Tory PM had tried to increase the specialist bank’s access to government-backed Covid-19 emergency loan schemes, according to the Financial Times.
Greensill Capital, a key backer of Liberty Steel, which employs 5,000 people in 12 plants across Britain, went into administration last week.
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more