‘You made a mistake, Keegan. I don’t like mistakes. Just don’t do it again.” Those words were spoken by the then editor of the Financial Times, Sir Gordon Newton, early in my career and they have stayed with me. Newton had an air of great authority. I often sense his shadow leaning over me to this day.
Alas, the shadow was not in evidence a fortnight ago. I had been much struck by some remarks by the financier Guy Hands quoted in the New European, and I requoted them in this column. They included an excoriating attack on the band of financiers who had supported Brexit, in their own interests but certainly not of the country’s.
