Despite having no interest in journalism when he fell into a junior role at the Financial Times (FT) after leaving Oxford University, Richard Lambert went on to edit the business news bible for a decade. But his illustrious 35-year career at the paper was not without its mishaps. "I hated doorstepping," he said. "Once I doorstepped a financier who had been involved in a scandal, but I dreaded it so much that I went to the end of the street and lit up a cigarette. While I was smoking, he scarpered. I got into terrible trouble and never doorstepped again." Voice of business Lambert has since given up both journalism and smoking, and is now the voice of British business as director-general of employers' body the CBI. "A wise old mentor told me when I got the editor's job that in the unlikely event of me surviving 10 years, I should quit, because everyone would want to see the back of me," he said. So Lambert left the FT and, after a handful of temporary assignments for...



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