“She would see the leaders as men, individuals with emotions and quirks,” says Bob Tyrer, who held several editorial roles on The Sunday Times over the years. “It was a strength of her reporting. She got inside them, showing that they weren’t identikit monsters, but real people.” Despite her news agency training, at first her writing could be jumbled and at times almost incomprehensible. “Marie was addicted to getting another quote and then she’d write in a terrible rush from her notebook in no order whatsoever,”
