Alastair Morton

The project, anyway, cracked on under the new Eurotunnel organisation, co-led by the first of our guys.

This is the first of our guys, Alistair Morton.

Here he is.

And what a guy he is.

That was always the thing that I had in my mind, was that he looks like that Mercedes van.

You know exactly the van I mean as well, Nova.

Anyway, by 1990, Alistair Morton was chief exec of Eurotunnel.

The first tunnel breakthrough had happened, and TML, Transmarch...

But it's worldwide on major rail projects that there's a huge undelivery on the forecasts.

Well, I once had the good fortune to meet Alistair Morton, who was the builder of the Channel Tunnel, and he was late for our meeting by about 40 minutes and hugely apologetic, very nice of him, when he arrived.

And he asked me if I ever had any alterations done to my house, you know, an extension.

I said, well, no, it's kind of not me.