Make WhatsApp lobbying more transparent, urge MPS
The Independent|May 02, 2024
Reform called for after Cameron’s Greensill Covid messages
- KATE DEVLIN
Make WhatsApp lobbying more transparent, urge MPS

Rules that failed to reveal David Cameron’s WhatsApp lobbying of ministers on behalf of disgraced financier Lex Greensill should be reformed, an influential group of MPs have said.

At the height of the Covid pandemic, the foreign secretary and his staff sent 45 emails, texts and messages about Greensill, including nine WhatsApps to the then chancellor Rishi Sunak.

The contact from Lord Cameron, then a former prime minister who had been out of office for almost half a decade, emerged only after Greensill Capital collapsed in 2021. They showed he wrote to one senior official during the pandemic that he hoped to “see you with Rishi’s (sic) for an elbow bump or foot tap. Love Dc.”

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