Patrick Hutber (18 May 1928 – 3 January 1980) was a British journalist.''The Times'' (4 January 1980), p. 12. He was educated at Ealing Grammar School for Boys and

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, where he was librarian and secretary of the Union in 1951. After working for J. Lyons and Co. and the Institute of Bankers, in 1957 he was employed by the ''

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''. He became its commercial editor in 1959 and in 1964 he started the Questor column of ''

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''. Hutber was appointed City Editor of ''

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'' in 1966 and afterwards became associate editor and economic commentator of '' Now!'' He was awarded the Financial Journalist of the Year Award in 1972. His maxim Hutber's Law ('Improvement means deterioration') is still regularly cited.

Works

*''The Decline and Fall of the Middle Class and How It Can Fight Back'' (1976). *(editor) ''What is Wrong with Britain?'' (1978).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hutber, Patrick 1928 births 1980 deaths Alumni of New College, Oxford The Daily Telegraph people Financial Times people 20th-century English businesspeople