More Cameron lobbying alert: Treasury Permanent Secretary Tom Scholar tells Public Accounts Committee he was contacted by the former Prime Minister personally about Greensill in March/April 2020. He contacted him his official mobile number. Scholar used to work for Cameron.

Scholar: “If a former minister asked to talk to me I will always do that."

In one line Scholar encapsulates why former politicians are so prized by lobbying firms- and a prime minister in particular.

Scholar asked the nub of the question- why did government even need supply chain finance in the first place? Why not just have the government pay promptly to begin with?

Scholar says HMT was always "sceptical" of this sort of idea. And yet Greensill was given huge breadth....