Last night former prime minister David Cameron broke his month-long silence on his lobbying of the UK government between 2019 and 2020 on behalf of his then-employer, scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill.
The statement is an astonishing U-turn from Cameron’s previous comments.
Cameron made headlines in February 2010, when he was on the cusp of becoming prime minister, by denouncing lobbying as “the next big scandal waiting to happen”. His speech has since been purged from the Conservative Party’s website along with decades of content, but an archived version allows us to compare what Cameron said in 2010 with his stance in 2021.
