Lex Greensill given ‘extraordinarily privileged’ No 10 access, inquiry finds

Report criticises David Cameron and Jeremy Heywood and says lobbying process is insufficiently transparent

The businessman Lex Greensill was given extraordinarily privileged" access to Downing Street while the government's process for managing lobbying is insufficiently transparent and allows access to a privileged few", a report into the Greensill lobbying scandal commissioned by the prime minister has concluded.

The former prime minister David Cameron and the late cabinet secretary Jeremy Heywood have been criticised in the 141-page review drawn up by the City solicitor Nigel Boardman.