Top U.K. Official Offered Greensill’s Cameron BOE Phone Numbers
- ‘You name it,’ Tom Scholar told ex-PM lobbying for Greensill
- Texts shed light on exchange between the men on interest rates
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The top U.K. Treasury official gave David Cameron contact details for the deputy governor of the Bank of England, as the former prime minister tried to lobby on behalf of the now insolvent lender Greensill Capital.
Cameron had messaged Treasury Permanent Secretary Tom Scholar on March 5, 2020 requesting a number for Deputy Governor Jon Cunliffe and offering to take Scholar out for lunch, according to texts that were published by the House of Commons Treasury Committee.