Cameron refuses 3 times on BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg to reveal Greensill pay
David Cameron has repeatedly refused to say how a lot he earned from his work for failed agency Greensill Capital after stepping down as Prime Minister.
The ex-PM mentioned he did not should disclose his earnings as a result of he was a “private citizen” on the time – regardless of being requested 3 times on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Lord Cameron had sought entry to an emergency Covid mortgage for Greensill Capital, which was headed by ex-No10 adviser and banker Lex Greensill.
The agency collapsed in March 2021 and the identical yr a report by MPs accused the ex-PM of a “significant lack of judgement” in trying to foyer ministers on behalf of the agency. A BBC Panorama report in 2021 claimed the ex-PM made round $10million – £7million – from Greensill earlier than the agency collapsed.
Asked concerning the experiences, Lord Cameron, who’s now the Foreign Secretary, instructed the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: “No, that isn’t true”. But when pressed on how a lot he did obtain, the previous Tory chief swerved the query.
He mentioned: “While I was out of office the most important thing I did was help Alzheimer’s Research UK raise millions of pounds battling with dementia – that was the number one thing I did. This issue on Greensill has been examined by all of these committees, by all these inquiries”.
Quizzed a second time, Lord Cameron mentioned he had declared “all the information” to these liable for the register of ministers’ pursuits. “They have the information about the jobs that I had and the things that I did and they make a decision about declaration. But of course during that period I was a private citizen between 2016 and when I took this job,” he added.
Asked a 3rd time he mentioned: “I was a private citizen. I had a number of different interests of things I did, including important charitable work. I think as a private citizen you’re entitled to do that and that’s what I’ve done. Very clearly on coming back into Government I resigned every single job, every single position, everything I did. Then you make a declaration of your interests, you have to explain companies you’ve been working for to the person who registers these interests”.
A spokesman for the ex-PM instructed The Mirror on the time, “David Cameron didn’t obtain something just like the determine quoted by Panorama” and added “he acted in good faith at all times”.
