Gordon Brown has launched a blistering attack on lobbying that makes him "very angry" - and slapped down Tony Blair for downplaying the scale of the problem.
Ex-Prime Minister Mr Brown said the culture of private influence has "got to stop" and building emergency ventilators was no excuse for leaning on a PM to change tax rules.
This week it emerged Boris Johnson texted billionaire Sir James Dyson vowing to "fix" a tax rule so his staff could help build ventilators for the NHS.
Mr Johnson has insisted he would make "no apology" for saving lives by any means in a crisis - and was backed by Tony Blair, who said "I find it hard to get worked up about this." But asked to respond to Mr Blair today, Mr Brown told ITV's Good Morning Britain:
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