Whitehall’s mover and shaker
Lord Heywood, master servant
JEREMY HEYWOOD was “in the room where it happens”, to borrow a phrase from “Hamilton”, for the most important decisions of Britain’s past quarter-century. He was at the Treasury on Black Wednesday in 1992, when the pound was forced out of the European exchange-rate mechanism, and in Downing Street in 2001 when the aeroplanes hit the twin towers and the decision was taken to invade Iraq. After a spell in banking he returned to the civil service in time to see the global financial system collapse. Читать дальше...