Spiritual sanctuary succeeds demolition and Debenhams

Given his activity the previous evening, my first question is how do you to top dinner with the chancellor? But no, “He wasn’t there,” says Lawson, “we were just using his house, although it was a bit weird seeing all the toys out in the back garden from where the Prime Minister and his family live there.” Financial services is not the career John Lawson had first considered, so how exactly does a computer science graduate from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh end up as the head of pensions policy at a company like Standard life? “Well I just sort of fell into it,” says Lawson. “I ...