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The Peter Jay I knew: the BBC’s aloof, brilliant economics editor

Peter Jay became economics editor at the Times at the age of 30 (Getty)
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Anthony Browne

Anthony Browne was MP for South Cambridgeshire. He is a former Europe correspondent at the Times and environment editor at the Observer

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