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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Business
Jonathan Prynn

Is it really the time to shower a bank boss with cash?

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(Picture: PA Wire)

It is undeniably good news that one of Britain’s biggest banks finally seems to have recovered from the last existential crisis but four to crash over these islands.

It seems a very long time ago that Gordon Brown was forced to step in to nationalise “Fred the Shred” Goodwin’s Royal Bank of Scotland only hours before it pulled down the entire British financial system.

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