Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The report commissioned by Boris Johnson from lawyer Nigel Boardman found that financier Lex Greensill …
A fleet of private jets, unparalleled access to the corridors of power, an honour bestowed by royalty, and stratospheric wealth — Australian Lex Greensill was every inch the corporate titan. It was a version of what's known as supply chain finance — the core business of his newly launched firm, Greensill Capital. Greensill Bank and Greensill Capital were lending money …
A volunteer aide who worked on Boris Johnson's Tory leadership campaign was working for a steel tycoon linked to the Greensill lobbying row at the time, it has emerged. Malin Bogue was director of special projects in 2019 when Mr Johnson successfully ran to replace Theresa May, amid Tory division over Brexit. Gupta's Liberty Steel, which employs thousands in the …
As fairytales go, Lex Greensill's meteoric rise wasn't your classic rags to riches story. Now it is on the ropes as the 43-year-old Greensill desperately tries to stave off a collapse that threatens the livelihood of thousands and could ricochet from London to Bremen and all the way to Whyalla, the home of Australia's second biggest steelworks. In 2017, as …
