Wow, the PM says -- "I am lobbied (like I am at many public meetings) but I don't let it influence me because I make up my own mind."  The difference here is that people are paying him for the privilege to lobby him in private . . . if he wants people to continue to pay for the right to lobby him in private (which is very clearly something he and his party' fundraising arm does want) he will need to show that this lobbying in fact does work.  Afterall, who would continue to pay for the opportunity to privately lobby the PM if there was no chance that the investment had any possibility of success?  Basic economics suggest these investors are expecting a return on their investment.

I am stunned at how tone-deaf our PM is.  I am stunned at how little personal integrity and conflict of interest seem to mean to him.  Sunny ways, it seems, will be short lived.