Mr Greensill was recruited by a former colleague at Morgan Stanley, Jeremy Heywood, who by 2011 was back in government as cabinet secretary, the governments most senior mandarin. Lord Heywood died of cancer aged 57 in 2018.
Mr Boardman said Lord Heywoods initial appointment of Mr Greensill for a three-month stint in early 2012 followed a proper process – although the system for recruiting senior private-sector expertise was and remained opaque and ill-defined.
But after a senior Cabinet Office official said Mr Greensill had finished what he was brought in to do and is now going beyond his brief, the Australian was shifted to a different unit that sat closer to 10 Downing Street and reported to Lord Heywood. Mr Greensill set up the Briti…
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