Rishi Sunak has said that the identity of someone who presented a request for financial assistance during the pandemic had no impact on the "attention and proper due diligence" it got amid the ongoing Greensill lobbying row.
Speaking at a Treasury select committee hearing, Sunak added that it was "entirely right" that officials should have considered any proposal, including those from the former prime minister, to help businesses given the scale of the impact of Covid-19.
Earlier this month, the Treasury released two text messages sent by Sunak to Cameron. The messages, sent by Cameron to the chancellor's private phone in 2020, show the ex-PM asking for help for finance firm Greensill Capital where he worked as an adviser.
Regarding his correspondences, Sunak said: "Actually everything that my interaction with David Cameron has been disclosed through the various Freedom of Information requests and other things."
Mr Sunak told MPs that the total of his interaction with the former prime minister "is in the public domain".
He said it was "a surprise" to receive a message from the former Conservative leader, adding: "I don't know David Cameron very well at all."
