After the dust settles over the Greensill affair, I suspect we will find that the lack of judgment over David Cameron’s approaches to ministers is less important than the general failure to address what has become a casual approach to conflicts of interest amongst many in government and politics. My respected predecessor as chair of … Read more
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Home Office contractors who deport people from the UK have used the racist term “cotton pickers” to describe their black colleagues, a court has heard. The Home Office uses the contractor Mitie to deport people to destinations including Jamaica, Pakistan, India, Nigeria and Ghana along with European countries and other locations. The escorts are only … Read more
David Cameron lobbied a senior German official on behalf of Greensill Capital as an investigation into the financial firm’s banking division in Germany was accelerating, it has emerged. The former prime minister took part in a virtual call with the German ambassador in November in which senior Greensill representatives discussed introducing Earnd, a system that … Read more
The head of the watchdog monitoring standards for holders of public office has called for increased oversight of ministerial interests. The comments from Lord Evans follow controversies concerning ministers’ involvement with lobbyists and the links between government figures and the Greensill Capital finance group. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s The Week in Westminster, Evans said … Read more