WHILE he was the head of Britain’s foreign intelligence service, the recently deceased Sir Alex Younger was known by the codename “C”. But to a raft of top-flight political journalists, he was just “Alex”.
Gushing tributes flooded in for Younger when he died aged 62 earlier this month. The former head of MI6, the popular name for the Secret Intelligence Service, was lauded by some of the biggest names in British journalism, from ITV’s Robert Peston to BBC Newsnight’s Victoria Derbyshire.
