Norman Lamont, at the time of Black Wednesday – the Major government’s notorious eviction from the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (the ERM).
Suzanne was told this tall, thin, brilliant man she saw eating in the canteen was ‘the scariest person in the building’. He asked her to join him on his Treasury Fundamental Expenditure Review. ‘He would be quite tough, always asking the difficult question that you didn’t know how to answer.’ She enjoyed him ‘striding around the Treasury with me following along in the wake of his swirling dark coat’.
Of such is Whitehall romance made. They married three years later, when Suzanne was 28 and Jeremy 35.Suzanne felt ‘utterly secure’ with Jeremy.
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