From New Statesman
By David Blanchflower
"King has controlled the Bank with an iron fist, slaying any dissenters in his path. He follows in the tradition established by Montagu Norman, who was governor from 1920 to 1944: it’s his way or the highway. I recall a meeting in which King told the Treasury representative to tell the then prime minister to shut up. I have never worked at a place that had such low morale. I clashed with King many times when I was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) but I had an endowed professorship to go back to at Dartmouth College. Fortunately, my career didn’t depend on him."
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