Enoch Powell said that all political lives end in failure. In fact, almost all prime ministerial lives end in corporate sinecures.
Before she retreated into the solitude of classical music and Songs of Praise, Margaret Thatcher was a consultant to the cigarette maker Philip Morris and the hedge fund Tiger Management. John Major made discreet millions chairing the European business of the US private equity firm Carlyle, a prolific defence investor, and served as a senior adviser to the investment bank Credit Suisse. Between writing books and doing charity work in Fife, Gordon Brown helps the bond investment giant Pimco and the Swiss private equity firm Partners Group. And, as foreign secretary-in-waiting, David Cameron had his misadventures with the scandal-hit finance provider Greensill and