"So did Andrea Leadsom ever work for you?" I asked the chairman of the improbably-sized investment company Prandeamus Asset Management when I dropped by to see him this week.
"Steady on," he replied. "I know there's been some discussion over just how fictional elements of her CV may have been but don't you think that's pushing it?" "Why would you say that?" I asked. "I thought you'd be excited. Only last week we were discussing the possibility of a former journalist becoming the UK's next prime minister and now, depending on how 150,000 Conservative party members choose to vote, it could be a member of Her Majesty's financial services industry - and a fund manager to boot." "Isn't at least part of the fuss down to the fact she wasn't a fund manager?" aske...
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