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David Cameron insists he complied with rules when lobbying Government on behalf of Greensill Capital
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David Cameron has defended meeting Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman during a business trip in January last year.
The former British prime minister said he and scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill met the leader during a trip to the kingdom while advising on the country’s upcoming chairmanship of the G20.
Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the prince’s authoritarian consolidation of power, was brutally murdered in early October 2018.
Later that month, former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers said “all the evidence” suggested the journalist had been murdered on the orders of someone close to the crown prince.
Former Tory prime minister David Cameron has broken his silence on the lobbying scandal surrounding himself and Lex Greensill DAVID Cameron has accepted he should have communicated with the Government “through only the most formal of channels” as he acknowledged he made mis-steps over the Greensill Capital lobbying controversy. In his first comments after weeks of silence, the former prime minister said in a statement that having “reflected on this at length” he accepts he should have acted differently “so there can be no room for misinterpretation”. The “growing scandal” began after it emerged the former Tory leader privately lobbied current government ministers including Chancellor Rishi Sunak for access to an emergency coronavirus loan for his employer, the scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill.