David Cameron faces grilling by MPs over Greensill lobbying

David Cameron is to appear before MPs next week to be grilled over his lobbying of government ministers on behalf of failed finance firm Greensill Capital.

The former prime minister will face sustained questioning by the cross-party House of Commons Treasury Committee on 13 May.

And financier Lex Greensill, who got a job inside government under Cameron’s administration and recruited him as a senior adviser after his departure from office, will also face the committee on 11 May.

The committee is conducting one of seven inquiries into the Greensill affair, which saw Mr Cameron lobby Treasury ministers including chancellor Rishi Sunak by text message for Greensill’s inclusion in multi-billion pound government Covid support schemes.