03-05-2025
Six rounds with Gary Stevenson, the new economic hero of the left
The hottest new YouTube sensation in British politics looks like he's about to punch me in the face.
Gary Stevenson, star City trader turned left-wing firebrand, has been describing his 'surreal' and meteoric propulsion to fame since I first met him a little over a year ago when he released his memoir.
But when I ask him about newspaper reports that he has oversold his trading CV, his usual bonhomie fades, fast. 'I would have expected better from you,' he says, icily. 'I'm frankly surprised a journalist like you who's read my book can't see what's happened here.'
That book, The Trading Game, is a riproaring account of Stevenson's time as a poor kid from the East End becoming Citibank's most profitable global trader
