U.K. Watchdog Calls for Urgent Lobbying Reform on Greensill
- No ‘boundaries’ to prevent conflict of interest, Pickles warns
- Johnson: U.K. needs to ‘get to the bottom’ of lobbying claims
The offices of Greensill Capital (U.K.) Ltd. near Warrington, U.K.
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The head of the U.K. watchdog scrutinizing politicians and top civil servants taking up private sector jobs called for urgent reform, warning there are no “boundaries at all” to prevent conflicts of interest.
Eric Pickles, chairman of the Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, was responding in a parliamentary hearing Tuesday to the revelation that Bill Crothers -- then the government’s chief commercial officer -- was allowed to work for the now insolvent Greensill Capital while still in post in 2015.