Peter Jay

And to give him access to these higher levels of power the same way his daughter used the same blueprint to ape his behavior all of these years later.

That evening, the economist Peter Jay found himself sharing Betty Maxwell's misgivings.

It was as if people came because they wanted to see Maxwell.

It was a spectacle.

I mean, that was the IMF time.

Callaghan made that speech, which is reputed to have been written by Peter Jay, saying that we thought we could spend our way out of trouble, but it's quite clear that you can't do that.

I mean, those were key moments in the mid-70s.

But

In the days where John Birt was running the, you know, the Weekend World.

Even before that, when somebody like Peter Jay, the British ambassador to the USA.

Guys that started up Good Morning TV were working then th- at London Weekend.

It was just a, a blast.