THE NEW BOY

摘要

Same place, very different person. Nine months ago Richard Bowker sneered when Building asked if he really wanted the job of leading the £45bn reconstruction of every secondary school in the country. A month later he left to double his salary at National Express. His successor, Tim Byles, the former chief executive of Norfolk council, who took over in November, is sitting in a meeting room next door to where that interview took place, a minute's walk from the Palace of Westminster.