Rishi turns to his vampire squid pals again for help

RISHI SUNAK keeps the chumocracy chugging along with the appointment of yet another of his former Goldman Sachs colleagues – as if with blithe ignorance of public concerns about the investment bank’s role in the 2007 global financial crisis which resulted in the loss of so many jobs, homes and savings.

Last year, Sunak chose Richard Sharp, his former boss at Goldman Sachs, as a Treasury adviser to help with the Covid-19 rescue package. Sharp has now been made the new BBC chairman – allowing Sunak to bring in another Goldman alumnus, Chris Grigg, as a ‘senior adviser’.

Grigg spent more than 20 years at the bank, rising to be partner, and got out just before the crash with bulging pockets.

He got a CBE in the latest honours list for holding down his job at the helm of property giant British Land and will soon be helping Sunak design the new Infrastructure Bank.

Curiously, t he of f i ci al Government biogs of the Chancellor and Grigg make no mention of their time at the investment bank that was once l i kened to a ‘great vampire squid’.