'Britain needs a shake up': UK economist from a Kilburn Irish family on banks, business and Boris

Gerard Lyons believes the EU is a low-growth ‘Titanic’ and that Britain can be nimbler on its own in ‘choppy waters’. Photograph: Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images Britain needs a "shake up" of institutions such as the Bank of England, according to Gerard Lyons, a son of Irish immigrants to London who was Boris Johnson's chief economic adviser when he was mayor of the city. Lyons, who was a front-runner to become governor of the Bank of England in 2019 before the job went to Andrew Bailey, says the bank lacks "credibility" and needs an overhaul. Britain also needs to jolt…