The Profile

Talking tough on Brexit: the Thatcherite who has given up on the Tories

Equity investor Guy Hands, the heaviest of heavyweights in the City, has stuck a pin in Conservative hopes of rescuing the British economy without striking an entirely new deal with Europe

Guy Hands on post-Brexit Britain: ‘If British politics had been a business, I would have immediately prescribed a radical operational overhaul, brand refocus and replacement of senior personnel’

In brief:

Name and role: Guy Hands, chairman and founder of private equity firm Terra Firma

Age: 63

Appearance: tall, glasses, mop of thick grey hair

Newsworthiness: the multimillionaire Tory businessman last week said the British economy is ‘frankly doomed’ unless it can renegotiate Brexit

In depth:

Guy Hands has been a Tory since his Oxford days, and a well-connected one too: William Hague, a former Conservative leader, was the best man at his ...