QUESTIONS CAMERON AND JOHNSON MUST ANSWER

● How many ministers did David Cameron message behind the scenes? The ex-PM exchanged texts with Chancellor Rishi Sunak and also reportedly contacted Treasury ministers John Glen and Jesse Norman over the Covid loan scheme.

● What did Cameron say? Despite David Cameron’s 1700word statement, he has not disclosed what he actually said to the ministers he lobbied.

●How much was he being paid? Cameron has said he was paid “partly” in shares for his work for Greensill Capital, which were worth “nowhere near” the £60million speculated in the press.

● When did Cameron and Lex Greensill first meet? Cameron said he had very little to do with Greensill when he joined No10 in the early 2010s as a staff member and the pair only met twice in his six years as PM.

● How exactly did Lex Greensill get that job in No10? Cameron insisted Greensill was given his job in No10 in 2011 by the late Cabinet Secretary Jeremy Heywood, who has since died of cancer.

● When did Greensill tap up David Cameron for a private sector job? David Cameron became a parttime adviser to Greensill Capital, paid for 25 days per year, in August 2018.

● Will the investigation be properly independent of government?

The investigation will be led by Nigel Boardman, a non-executive director at the Business Department, who will step aside temporarily from his role. While a legal figure, Boardman self-evidently has links to the government, rather than being, for example, a judge – the type of figure appointed to lead other inquiries.