Sleazy Does It? The Greensill Affair (with Stephen Hammond MP)

Revelations that a civil servant was an adviser to the collapsed finance firm Greensill while he was still working inside government have deepened concerns about the company's influence. There has already been evidence that David Cameron tried to push his former government colleagues towards offering loans to Greensill.Stephen Hammond, Conservative MP for Wimbledon tells Bloomberg Westminster's Caroline Hepker and Roger Hearing an employed civil servant also working for a commercial firm is very odd. Hammond says politicians should be able to engage with business, but the rules may need to be re-examined, and it's important to avoid the atmosphere of sleaze that beset the end of the John Major administration in the 1990s.Bloomberg Opinion columnist Therese Raphael joins to discuss the damage the affair is doing to the Johnson administration and the need for changing the rules.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.