David Cameron was contracted to work 25 days a year as an adviser to Greensill Capital’s boardDavid Cameron was paid more than $1 million a year to lobby for the finance company Greensill Capital, according to reports. The former prime minister received a salary of about £720,000 for his part-time advisory role at the firm run by the Australian financier, Lex Greensill, before it collapsed into administration. SponsoredThis will have made him one of the company’s highest earners, the Financial Times reported, with the head of its American division earning less than half what Cameron did. The company found itself at the centre of Westminster’s biggest lobbying scandal in a generation after Cameron’s efforts to lobby on its behalf by texting Rishi Sunak, the chancellor, and other senior government figures on dozens of occasions were revealed. The former prime minister

Source: The Times July 12, 2021 23:03 UTC