Archive: Bob Diamond

King 'gave Barclays revolver' to polish off Diamond

Mervyn King faced an unusually testing session before MPs

Mervyn King faces questions about his conduct after it emerged he privately pressured Barclays chairman Marcus Agius to force Bob Diamond's resignation.

Nothing to lose? Diamond set to hit back in MP grilling

Sketch: Bob hearts Barclays, but MPs don't give Diamond much love

Podcast: Banker-bashing reloaded

Libor inquiry gutted of critical MPs

Getting off easy? Mann's exclusion from the committee will lead to relief at Barclays.

The two MPs who managed to draw blood from Bob Diamond have been left off the parliamentary Libor inquiry, according to reports.

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Double-whammy: Bob Diamond loses pay-off and faces parliament recall

Bob Diamond waved his £20 million pay-off today and faced being recalled to parliament, following allegations he mislead the Treasury committee.

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Ed Miliband banking reform speech in full

Ed Miliband on Bob Diamond, banking, Libor and Barclays.

Read Ed Miliband's speech outlining his proposed reforms of the banking system in full with politics.co.uk.

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Osborne position even weaker after Tucker interrogation

Paul Tucker during a Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference in central London in 2010.

George Osborne's decision to personally attack Ed Balls appeared even less wise today, after Paul Tucker told MPs his only contacts over the Libor rate were with the Cabinet Office.

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Cable adds to pressure against Diamond's £17m 'outrage'

Bob Diamond's payout is thought to be up to £17 million

Westminster has added its weight to the pressure on senior Barclays executives to resist Bob Diamond's £17 million 'golden parachute'.

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The Week in Review: Diamond in the rough

The Diamond debacle saw MPs respond in a standard manner.

Never before have so many been so angry about something they barely understand.

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Political week on Twitter: July 2nd - 6th

A celebration of the Twitterati's favourite characters

All the week's best tweets in one handy location.

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Fraud Office opens Libor investigation

All smiles now? Osborne retracts accusations against Balls.

The likelihood of criminal charges over the Libor scandal increased dramatically today when the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) opened an investigation.

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Coalition gets its way over bankers inquiry

Ed Balls and George Osborne had their most explosive exchange today.

A parliamentary inquiry into the professional standards of Britain's bankers is set to go ahead, despite an afternoon of acrimony across the despatch boxes.

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Podcast: Banker-bashing reloaded

The City of London faces intense hostility from the general public

Following Barclays' £290 million fine for fiddling the interbank lending rate Libor the search for answers from Westminster has begun. But where will this end up? Will the inquiry into wrongdoing in the banking sector change anything?

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Comment: Diamond isn't a bike's best friend

Chris Waterman: 'There are questions over corporate branding on public provided services'

Barclays has been disgraced - should it really be sponsoring our bikes?

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Sketch: Bob hearts Barclays, but MPs don't give Diamond much love

A dash for the exit: Bob Diamond makes a break for freedom after his MP grilling

"Why are you so reluctant to tell us?" Andrew Tyrie asked Bob Diamond at the start of today's Treasury committee grilling. "I'm very suspicious," Tory Mark Garnier declared, three hours later. Nothing much had emerged in the interim.

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Diamond refuses to name names as 'beloved' Barclays battered by MPs

MPs failed to get any new concrete information out of Barclays boss Bob Diamond.

Bob Diamond refused to name the government minister who allegedly put pressure on Barclays to 'lowball' its Libor rating during a gruelling appearance before MPs today.

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Osborne: Brown govt responsible for Libor scandal

Osborne says Labour were involved in the rate-rigging

The tension and speculation over who is to blame over the rate-rigging scandal heated up today as the chancellor claimed his predecessors were "clearly involved".

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Miliband and Cameron refuse to blink first in Libor inquiry battle

Cameron and Miliband are trying to face each other down over the right response to the Libor scandal

Labour and the government are still at loggerheads over the need for a judge-led inquiry into the Libor interest rate row, after both sides refused to budge on the issue.

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PMQs and Bob Diamond evidence as-it-happened

Missed PMQs and Bob Diamond? Catch up here.

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Nothing to lose? Diamond set to hit back in MP grilling

Barclays' £290m fine has triggered another massive scandal

Politicians, bankers and regulators are all bracing for Bob Diamond's potentially explosive evidence to the Commons' Treasury select committee this afternoon.

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Threatening the establishment? Bank of England dragged into Barclays scandal

The alteration to Libor took place as observers panicked over the 2008 financial crisis.

The Bank of England was dragged into the Libor scandal today, after a Barclays submission to parliament suggested the deputy governor demanded Libor rates be lowered.

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Bloodbath at Barclays: Diamond departure triggers new resignation

Barclays Bob Diamond has stepped down amid huge pressure for his resignation.

The resignation of Bob Diamond from Barclays over the Libor scandal has triggered a new high-level resignation.

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Diamond resignation: The aftershocks

Bankers reputations were already at rock bottom when the Libor scandal hit

Who wins when Diamond falls?

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Barclays Bob Diamond statement in full

Read Barclays' full statement on the Libor row and the resignation of Bob Diamond in full.

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The Week in Review: Chloe Smith, Bob Diamond and the Infinite Crisis

Crises, crises everywhere, and not pre-election promise to hide behind.

Chloe Smith on Newsnight, panic at the Eurozone, Barclays Bob Diamond in the firing line, U-turns on fuel duty: It was another week of infinite crisis for the government.

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