Steve Webb: One political career that didn't end in failure

In what his party leader described as a night of pain and anguish for the Liberal Democrats, Steve Webb lost his constituency seat in Thornbury and Yate to the Conservative representative last week. He had been an MP since 1997 and, over the last five years as pension minister in the coalition government, had been instrumental in overseeing some of the biggest changes to the UK retirement market for decades. It is often said that all political careers end in failure but, in Steve's case, if in fact his political career is now at an end, that surely cannot be true. Both as an MP in opp...