Under pressure: the man who must rule on next UK airport

Guardian: Reclining in an office chair usually filled by the transport minister, Norman Baker, who is away for the day, Sir Howard Davies, 61 – former senior mandarin at the Treasury, one-time aide to Nigel Lawson, former director of the London School of Economics, head of the Financial Services Authority under Labour and now chairman of Phoenix Insurance – oozes the confidence of a man who has seen it all before. "It happened in the way these things do. Jeremy Heywood, the cabinet secretary, gave me a...

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