UK politics live: Cameron does not deny using Greensill’s private jet to fly to holiday home in Cornwall
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Related: Greensill questions: Cameron talks a lot, says little and doesn’t apologise
David Cameron has accepted he had a “big economic investment” in Greensill Capital but denied that motivated his intense lobbying of the Government as coronavirus struck.
The Conservative former prime minister said it was a “painful day” as he gave evidence to MPs on Thursday over his controversial lobbying of senior figures including Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
Meg Hillier, the chair, gets the final question.
Q: When you were PM, and I went to school assemblies and pupils asked what you were like, I said something positive. What should I say now?
