My friend Monty Meth, who has died aged 95, was both a reporter on the Daily Worker newspaper and, later, the industrial editor of the Daily Mail.
Monty was born above a barber’s shop in Bethnal Green, east
London, the youngest of three sons of Millie Epstein, a domestic servant, and Max Meth, a Czech Jewish
immigrant who found intermittent work as a bread roundsman and tailor.