Boyle, who was accused of dumbing down Radio 4, attended a comprehensive school in Glasgow before gaining a first class degree in English at the University of Strathclyde, and then completing an MA on Charles Dickens.
In 2009, the New York State Public Service Commission retained Charles River Associates, a management consulting firm based in Boston, MA, to perform a two-phase investigative accounting audit to determine how much money Con Edison owed to its customers for overcharges for the period 2000 to 2009.