My tip for enterprise tsar from Cameron’s list of loads-of-money peers: Lord Fellowes of Downton
Who, I wonder, will advise David Cameron on entrepreneurship now that Lord Young of Graffham has been fed to the sharks by the Downing Street crew for his unguarded remark that in this ‘so-called recession… most people have never had it so good’? Even some voices on the BBC were prepared to admit that the former Cabinet minister, corporate chief and venture capitalist wasn’t entirely wrong: technically speaking, Britain came out of recession a year ago, and although it was longer and deeper than previous downturns (thus ‘the worst in living memory’), low interest rates really did help make it feel less painful for many people than those of 1991, 1981 and 1974.
But Young’s words made bad headlines — and journalists covering the story took their cue from Cameron’s people, giving the 78-year-old peer a casual kicking as he departed.
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