20 JUNE 1987, page 21

City And Suburban

First the good news, then the bad news for Nigel and Tigger CHRISTOPHER FILD ES I magine magine Downing Street in the hour of triumph. The Prime Minister thumps on the partition......

Bored Of Trade

HOW glum, across the square from the Treasury, stands the grey bulk of the Department of Trade and Industry. John Smith, its substantial shadow minister, gave its character......

Mai Or Mad Ors

I FIRST met the Chancellor's new lieute- nant because of a change of recruiting Policy at the Standard Chartered Bank. In the heyday of colonial banking, the Char- tered and the......

Safe Deposit

VOTE of confidence in them all, from Kensington. The scene is a bank, on the morning after the election. Enter a lady customer, well turned out but with one non-matching......

Cecil's Chance

ENERGY makes Cecil Parkinson the sponsoring minister for the biggest priva- tisation of all, with a last and best chance for the Government to learn from its mistakes. He......