Inside the world of the extraordinary man who ruled Number 10
He was the UK s top civil servant. Now Jeremy Heywood s widow has written a biography, serialised in The Telegraph over the next three days
30 January 2021 • 6:00am
‘You always need someone in government to deal with the mess in the middle’. Here, Heywood with Prime Minister David Cameron in 2011
Credit: Tom Stoddart
Jeremy Heywood was the most powerful man in Downing Street and Whitehall you have probably never heard of. Ending up as cabinet secretary, he worked extremely closely with four successive prime ministers – Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Theresa May. All four paid glowing tributes at his memorial service. He died of lung cancer in 2018, aged 56, working almost to the last.
Croatia’s plan for replacement of national currency with euro adopted by gov’t
ZAGREB, Dec 23 (Hina) – The Croatian government on Wednesday adopted a national plan for the replacement of the kuna with the euro, as part of preparations for the introduction of the euro as the sole legal tender.
The national plan was unveiled on 11 November at a meeting of the national council for the adoption of the euro, and was then put to public consultation.
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There have also been periods of excessive adulation of UK economic management. In late 2007, when Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, sterling was trading above $2. So next year the gloom will fade. It won t happen suddenly. People take a while to change their minds.
In any case some switch of sentiment has been feeding through in the past few weeks, especially a recognition that UK equities are the only major market that is relatively undervalued.
But by the end of the year investors will have taken a more balanced assessment of the UK. Expect the pound to be back to $1.50, and the FTSE 100 index to end the year significantly higher.