Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Gordon Pitts
Publication Date: August 14, 2025 - 17:00
Nova Scotian lawyer Sir Graham Day became Margaret Thatcher’s favourite fixer
August 14, 2025
More than two decades ago, when Lydia Bugden was a rising young lawyer in a Halifax legal firm, an older colleague offered a suggestion: It was time for her to meet Sir Graham Day.
Ms. Bugden was initially puzzled by this proposal. Inside her law firm, Stewart McKelvey, Sir Graham was this towering figure with a huge reputation – legendary corporate director, trusted adviser to Atlantic Canada’s business dynasties, and most famously, Margaret Thatcher’s favourite fixer, who in the 1980s engineered the privatization of British industrial megaliths in the shipbuilding and auto industries.
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