Goldman, you see, had done such a lousy job at his previous employer, Cantor Fitzgerald , that he was not only fired forlosing scads of money but his firm was actually sanctioned by regulators fornot doing a good job of supervising him.
When his departure was announced, the BBC's political editor Nick Robinson said it would mean the prime minister was losing a friend who was willing to challenge himfornot being clear enough nor impatient enough about how he wanted to change the country.