Article: A minder of others' business. (Peter Morgan, director-general of Britain's Institute of Directors)

A minder of others' business

THERE is a strong tradition at the Institute of Directors, as The Times observed over a year ago, that the director-general should |attempt to put the IoD on the map by making outrageous speeches bound to catch the headlines of the London Evening Standard,' thus securing extensive and controversial coverage across the land.

At the Royal Albert Hall last week, Peter Morgan built on that tradition. |Big business attacks Tories,' screamed the front of the Standard's first Tuesday edition, mysteriously printed some hours before the 2.40pm embargo that had been placed on Morgan's speech to the IoD's annual conference.

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