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‘I am at your service’: emails reveal Myners’ link to Lex Greensill

Crossbench peer met financier in July 2019 and was asked to release a statement countering claims of company fraud

Former City minister Lord Myners, a vocal public critic of the disgraced finance firm Greensill Capital, told its billionaire founder he was “at your service” and assured him negative media coverage would be forgotten and would “wrap fish and chips in no time”, newly published emails show.

The correspondence between Myners and Lex Greensill appears to confirm claims originally made in a Guardian investigation, which showed the peer had been wooed by the financier and weighed an offer to join his board, despite repeatedly raising concerns about its operations in parliament.

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