My daughter Catherine Webb, who has died aged 47 from metastatic ovarian cancer, was a senior Treasury official during a turbulent period in British politics and latterly bursar of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she had taken her undergraduate degree.
Having begun at the Treasury in 2000, Katie played a key role in helping ministers to deal with the 2008 financial crisis and Brexit before going on to become the Treasury’s director of operations, managing all the non-policy aspects of the department.
