Bloomberg’s Rob Hutton is reporting that Danny Alexander, the currently unemployed former Chief Secretary to the Treasury, is in the running to join China’s new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The Treasury is said to be putting forward Alexander for a seat on the bank’s board. It is not yet, Guido understands, a done deal… 

Joining the Beijing-based bank’s board would be a lucrative reward for Alexander, of whom George Osborne recently said he had “a lot of time for and respect for Danny”. As well as his board fees it would open up a lucrative future career in high finance in booming Asia. Sir Danny has come a long way in the decade since he was a press officer for the Cairngorms National Park…